Comment 36 for bug 1652282

No, it is NOT the new standard since as I have said, wayland apps have no issue running as root. Applications will NOT be totally rewritten to split off the parts that need root into a separate program. YOU stop changing the title, YOU are being a nuisance: this does not just affect gparted. In fact, gparted has now worked around the issue by automatically running xhost to fix the broken configuration.

Jeremy, you can easily see it is true by simply suing to root and running any native wayland ( gdm3 ) application ( like gedit ). It works just fine.

As long as gdm3 continues to NOT perform the Xauthority configuration its man page says it is supposed to, it is a bug in gdm3.