On running gui applications as root
Reindl Harald
h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Nov 19 13:31:19 UTC 2015
Am 19.11.2015 um 13:57 schrieb Simon Farnsworth:
> Put another way: "sudo emacs /etc/hosts" will break under Wayland
than wayland is currently not useable and ready to replace X11
as user i don't care if the application needs to be fixed or wayland
lacks whatever but given that there are a bazillion more applications
compared to X11 versus wayland it's pretty clear where to start
> "sudo -e
> /etc/hosts", "emacsclient /sudo::/etc/hosts" and "emacs /sudo::/etc/hosts"
> will all still work as they do today, as will "emacs --eval (find-file
> /sudo::/etc/hosts)"
horrible workarounds
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