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  1. Bug #1958055
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1958055

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

Tested with kubuntu-22.04-desktop-amd64.iso. Running "pkexec ubuntu-bug -f" failed to determine that there is a desktop, because neither DESKTOP nor WAYLAND_DISPLAY are set:

$ pkexec env | grep -Ev '^(LC|LS|PATH|TERM|COLOR|LANG)'
SHELL=/bin/bash
LOGNAME=root
USER=root
HOME=/root
PKEXEC_UID=1000

sudo on the other hand preserves XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY.

If you think that apport should not show a GUI when run under sudo, please open a separate bug against apport. This bug report is about sudo. sudo preserves some environment variables to run GUI applications, but not enough to get the theme right.