On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:24:40 -0500 Ryan Colgan <mr.ipod1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> When attempting to start Synaptic on GNOME Wayland, it fails to
start. When
> attempting to run as root via sudo from a terminal, the following error
> appears:
>
> ryan@ArchibaldColgan:~$ sudo synaptic
> No protocol specified
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>
> (synaptic:30717): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>
>
If I'm not wrong, this is a design decision of wayland.
synaptic should really look at adding polkit support to gain the root
privileges instead of running the full ui as root
