Bug#872376: Wayland session does not configure Xwayland authorization; cannot run apps as root

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 02:48:42PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
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> Personally, I'd suggest the second approach, but either would work.

Personally I consider it a feature that you're not able to run
gui applications as root under wayland session. Modern applications
should really implement privilegies separation and the supported
way in gnome is via polkit..... just my opinion though.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson