[Bug 1726545] Re: Gparted not working in Wayland Ubuntu

[Curtis Gedak]

The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to
enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland.

See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214

Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable-
xhost-root work-around.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1737248

The consequence is that GParted only runs seamlessly on X, and not on
Wayland.

You might try petitioning the packager who made the decision.

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Title:
  Gparted not working in Wayland Ubuntu

Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Some apps seem to have problems under Wayland in the new Ubuntu 17.10.
  Among them, gParted, which is quite a necessary piece of software,
  without any other capable enough option.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
  Package: gparted 0.28.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Mon Oct 23 22:09:57 2017
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-21 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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