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Running GParted (with sudo) on Wayland

I want to use GParted on Ubuntu Artful (17.10) which is running Gnome on Wayland. When I start GParted I get the gksu prompt to enter my password but then nothing happens.

When I start GParted from the command line via gksudo gparted I see the possible problem: 

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

When I run GParted in the XOrg Gnome session everything works fine.

Solution

  • I figured it out. I needed to allow root to display the application on the desktop. To do that I had to enter this into the command line

    xhost +SI:localuser:root

    Found the solution here gparted-forum.surf4.info and here ask.fedoraproject.org