gksudo 16.10

[Tom H]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The correct and current tools are pkexec and sudo but you'd have to
> ensure that DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY are preserved for a gui tool to
> function properly. IIRC, you'd also need to define XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.

Given Nils' email

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2016-November/288099.html

you'd also need to set HOME=/root