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  1. Bug #1712089
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Comment 5 for bug 1712089

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John Pye (jdpipe) wrote :

Annoying -- the developers over at Fedora seem to suggest that there is an unwillingness to provide support for any GUI that runs as root. Surely a problem for many admin tools like this?

Workaround is easy though:

command-line:
xhost + && sudo synaptic && xhost -

Probably there is something similar that could be done to change the launcher for synaptic, along similar lines?