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1. Björn Schießle (bes@io.schiessle.org)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 21:08:02 CEST Björn Schießle
   I'm the only one who is really disturbed that with Wayland it is no longer possible to do stuff like 'sudo -u someUser someGraphicalApp'? Is there any workaround. Or did we lost this with Wayland forever?
   
   #Wayland #xorg
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ repeated this.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Monday, 15-May-2017 23:14:58 CEST MMN-o ✅⃠

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     @bes I did not know this! If this is not possible (with that command at least), how do you start gedit as root as so many tutorials suggest?! .)
   • Björn Schießle (bes@io.schiessle.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2017 18:02:15 CEST Björn Schießle

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     • MMN-o ✅⃠
     @mmn yes, all this seems to no longer work. At least not the way people are used to. I also found various reports about it in the RedHat bugtracker. There seems to be some workarounds, but nothing is really convenient.
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2017 23:09:40 CEST Bob Jonkman

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     I usually use 'gksu some-X-app' to launch root graphical apps from the command line. I don't know if that fixes the #Wayland problem !linux