Ubuntu doesn't enter any WM except Gnome on Wayland

[Tedd M. V.]

Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> writes:

> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.09.2018, 17:43 -0500 schrieb Tedd M. V.:
>> 
>> * I believe it has something to do with the permissions, you see, in
>>   the past I tried to use synaptic and run other programs as sudo,
>> but it
>>   didn't work if used under Wayland so someone on an official Ubuntu
>>   forum said something about running this command 'xhost 
>>   si:localuser:root' and I think I also used with my normal user.
>
> this is desired behaviour by design of the GNOME/wayland developers:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451
>
> apps using sudo or the graphical equivalent will not work under
> wayland, they need to be re-written to operate as frontend and backend
> processes (so the graphical part always runs as user whle the backend
> can elevate its permissions on demand) 
>
> ciao
> 	oli

Wow, I didn't knew that, does Wayland provide any way to run this
programs on some sort of special mode? What does that command did?

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