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  1. Bug #1713313
  2. Comment #77

Comment 77 for bug 1713313

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 1713313] Re: Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session

costales writes:

> Would this hack fix the issue? (Add/Remove xhost +si:localuser:root to the launcher)
> I don't know if this could means something dangerous in Wayland.

I'm not sure if it will fix things run as root via pkexec but it will if
you manually run gui programs as root. There's no risk involved since
root can already do anything anyhow, including debug the X server and
force it to let them connect.