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

[Bob Hyman]

And in Ubuntu 19.04.  This is getting old.  Maybe wayland should relent from their purist stance (after all Unix always allowed root to do absolutely anything to the file system, and that's the keys to the kingdom).  Maybe Ubuntu should accept the workaround GParted implements.  
But neither side wants to compromise their principals, resulting in a system that's not self-consistent.

Meantime, I've implemented a SUDO wrapper that works for Gparted and
other GUI apps, as advised by
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_GUI_applications_as_root#Using_xhost

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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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