** Description changed:

  I am in need of doing some diagnostics work with "xdiagnose", however
  when searching for it in the Activities Overview, and then clicking on
  it, absolutely nothing happens, when in the past it would ask me for my
  password so that I could run it as root.
  
  I looked further into the issue and when trying to run it through
  Terminal:
  
-     xdiagnose
+     xdiagnose
  
  This was the output I got:
  
-     Error: Must run as superuser
+     Error: Must run as superuser
  
  But when running it in Terminal like so:
  
-     pkexec xdiagnose
+     pkexec xdiagnose
  
  It prompted for the password as it normally would and should (so pkexec
  is not the issue).
  
  There was also no output from the command:
  
-     grep -r 'xdiagnose' ~/.local/share/applications
+     grep -r 'xdiagnose' ~/.local/share/applications
  
  And the output of this command "grep -r 'xdiagnose'
  /usr/share/applications" was:
  
-     /usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Name=xdiagnose
-     /usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
-     
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
-     
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
+     /usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Name=xdiagnose
+     /usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
+     
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
+     
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
  
  The contents of the file is this:
  
-     [Desktop Entry]
-     Name=xdiagnose
-     GenericName=Diagnose Graphics Issues
-     Comment=X.org Diagnostic and Repair Utility
-     Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
-     Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
-     Terminal=false
-     Type=Application
-     Categories=System;Settings;
-     X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
+     [Desktop Entry]
+     Name=xdiagnose
+     GenericName=Diagnose Graphics Issues
+     Comment=X.org Diagnostic and Repair Utility
+     Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
+     Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
+     Terminal=false
+     Type=Application
+     Categories=System;Settings;
+     X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
  
  I have reinstalled it with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall xdiagnose",
  however this seems to have made no difference at all to anything.
  
  I have also attempted to launch another application via the Activities
  Overview that uses 'pkexec' to start, and it works fine as normal.
  
  I initially experienced this issue on Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 with GNOME
  3.16, then on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and now on Ubuntu
  GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.19. Though I remember a time when this issue
  wasn't present (probably when I was running Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 with
- GNOME 3.14 - I will test it and then update the report).
+ GNOME 3.14).

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  Unable to launch xdiagnose through the Activities Overview in the
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