I am trying to run applications like gedit and nautilus as root, but cannot find an option to do this. If I try terminal command I get an error. It seems like wayland does not allow me to run a graphical app from terminal
You can try this:
$ xhost +local:
$ sudo gedit
Graphical applications can't be run as root from terminal
It is not possible to start graphical apps under the root account from terminal when using su or sudo. Apps which use polkit to request administrator permissions for just certain operations and only when needed are not affected (they are not started as root right away). The discussion is ongoing about the best approach to take, see bug 1274451 and "On running gui applications as root" thread in fedora-devel mailing list.
taken from this :
Regards.,
I use command beesu graphicalApp. Works well, requires package beesu to be installed of course.
You are probably adding the & after the command which somehow doesn't work in Fedora while using su or sudo.
Ways to run GUI apps as root from terminal are as follows: (ordered as most preferable first)
su -c gedit and su -c nautilus (requires root password)sudo gedit and sudo nautilus (requires user password with root privilages)su and then from root, just simply evoke whatever app gedit & or nautilus & (this is considered risky if you be careless here; and ampersand works here)Asked: 2017-02-13 00:47:44 -0500
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Last updated: Feb 13 '17
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