Native Wayland support about lxqt-sudo HOT 6 CLOSED

Under Wayland it is no longer possible to run GUI applications with root rights.

Right; under a "purely" Wayland-based session (whatever it may mean), it may not be possible. But, months ago, I needed to run gsmartcontrol_polkit under Wayfire+LXQt, and this simple script worked:

#!/bin/bash
xhost +SI:localuser:root
/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol_polkit
xhost -SI:localuser:root
exit

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As I'm using wayland + LXQt as default I didn't notice any real problems with this, only synaptics on debian not working but didn't investigate about. Editing configuration files with featherpad (normal GUI) is straightforward as it uses lxqt-polkitd at the moment of saving, same for file management in pcmanfm-qt using "open tab as admin mode". "Open as root" isn't even needed.

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Therefore I hope you are not planning on deprecating lxqt-sudo.

There's no plan.

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Under Wayland it is no longer possible to run GUI applications with root rights.

Right; under a "purely" Wayland-based session (whatever it may mean),

I believe that 's called native Wayland.

But, months ago, I needed to run gsmartcontrol_polkit under Wayfire+LXQt, and this simple script worked:

#!/bin/bash
xhost +SI:localuser:root
/usr/bin/gsmartcontrol_polkit
xhost -SI:localuser:root
exit

Presumably this is using Xwayland (X11 emulation). I.e. not native ("real") Wayland.

Long term Xwayland might be deprecated, bit rot, get less compatible, no longer installed by default or one wanted to go full native Wayland without Xwayland being installed. Therefore it might be a good idea to phase out all the hacks.

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not native ("real") Wayland.

You asked about plans for Wayland. After more than a decade, X11 is still mostly used. No one has a reason to think about deprecation.

What we do in LXQt about Wayland is two-fold: Making apps work on it too, as far as Qt allows; and finding the best Wayland compositor for LXQt — labwc is the winner for now. Deprecation is not planned.

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BTW, you could use https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/discussions for questions.

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