On Tue 20 Jun 2023 at 11:12:37 (-0400), pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:13 -0400 > gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. > > Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without > > root permission > > Thank you. That's the error I saw when I tried this some time back > under Wayland. So I gave up on Synaptic on Wayland. I'm not going to > stop my GUI session to run Synaptic (without Wayland), and Synaptic run > as a regular user is useless, except to search for things.
… which is exactly what Gene wants it for: "Like looking at the menu in a fancy restaurant, if you don't have a menu to read, how that heck are you supposed to know what you want?" (Fri, 16 Jun 2023 19:40:54 -0400) Cheers, David.
