Unable to use luckybackup on Wayland session

[Norbert]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install Ubuntu 17.10.
2. Install luckybackup package
3. Try to use luckybackup as superuser
5. Get error message

Failed to run /usr/bin/luckybackup as user root.

Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file.

Expected results:
User is able to use luckybackup as root

Actual results:
User is unable to use luckybackup as root

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: luckybackup 0.4.8-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5
Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Aug 27 15:10:58 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha i386 (20170826)
SourcePackage: luckybackup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)