No, you misunderstand. Wayland applications running as root work just fine under Wayland. It is X11 applications that do not work, and the reason it does not work is because gdm misconfigures Xwayland. The gdm man page says it does one thing, but it in fact does another, therefore, it is broken.
No, you misunderstand. Wayland applications running as root work just fine under Wayland. It is X11 applications that do not work, and the reason it does not work is because gdm misconfigures Xwayland. The gdm man page says it does one thing, but it in fact does another, therefore, it is broken.