Everything tries to launch as root

[pst007x]

sudo apt install synapse

1. open menu, run synapse
2. search for an application, for example 'google'
3. when trying to launch the following message is displayed:

Google Chrome cannot be run as root.
Please start Google Chrome as a normal user. To run as root, you must specify an alternative -user-date-dir for storage of profile information

Attempted to rectify:

sudo apt purge synapse*

the reinstalled.

If I try to launch terminal, no message appears and app does not launch.

Xubuntu 16.04

[Jérémy Munsch (jeremy-munsch)]

I can't reproduce this. Using Kubuntu 16.10.