Package: synaptic Version: 0.84.6 Followup-For: Bug #818366 Dear Maintainer,
I can confirm this on Buster. If Synaptic is started from KDE applications menu when using Wayland, it does not ask for root privileges but starts without privileges instead. It is not very useful in that state. If I try to start Synaptic from the console by issuing "sudo synaptic", it doesn't start at all. It gives this error message: " No protocol specified Unable to init server: Yhdistäminen ei onnistunut:Yhteys torjuttu Failed to initialize GTK. Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without root permission " -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.17-2 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.8.2 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-6 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.32-5 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.54.2-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.11-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-25 ii zenity 3.30.0-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.24992-1+b2 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> pn menu <none> pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.53 -- no debconf information
