On 02/11/17 12:56, Phil Susi wrote: > Package: gdm3 > Version: 3.26.1-3 > > The man page for gdm3 states that it will create an XAUTHORITY file in > /var/run/gdm3 and set the environment variable to point to it. It does > not do this when running wayland. Instead it leaves Xwayland configured > to allow connections only from local processes running as the same user > ID. This prevents you from being able to run X applications as root, > such as gparted or synaptic. It also means that two users on two > different terminals using a shared/guest UID can interfere with one > another's X session, making it a security issue as well. > > Please restore the sane XAUTHORITY settings under Xwayland.
Please forward this request upstream. We are unlikely to add a patch for this. Cheers, Emilio