First development test ISO for Sway Community Edition installs

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works too and may better than xhost as it does not need xoeg-xhost to be installed.

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What is the exact error when trying to use meld with root permissions?

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What happens if using this:

DIFFPROG='dbus-launch meld' su -c pacdiff

?

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The latter is working?

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strange ? yes!! why i can simply run meld as root?

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Looks like it!

But what happens if you do it in Welcomeā€™s Pacdiff button?

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I have the feeling that sudo is the problem. su seems to work.

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without access to xhost it simply does not start from welcome, it opens the terminal ask for password but if i put V (view) it returns to question without open the guiā€¦

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Strange.
And one more question: does this work:

DIFFPROG='dbus-launch meld' su -c pacdiff
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same same :frowning:

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The meld and root problem is strange.
It all works on a traditional DE, so it could be because of some missing package that is related to xorg vs. wayland?

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basicly wayland does not want do a gui in root :slight_smile:

as Odiousimp mention is also kinda work around also like -sudo -HE i believe

can be a typo lol :slight_smile:

but stil :slight_smile: xhost is also just a workaround :slight_smile:)

and gnome fixed it internally it seems

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I tested it here and with xhost it can be made to work almost OK.
This means (at least here) that

  • meld is extremely slow and erratic but sometimes workā€¦
  • diffuse seems to work quite well with xhost.

So this really is a wayland ā€œfeatureā€ that can be worked around with xhost temporarily.
Not the desired solution, but seems to work anyway.

So Iā€™ll make some wayland changes to Welcome, and for pacdiff in wayland we need packages

  • xorg-xhost
  • diffuse

Fortunately neither is very large.

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Just made new Welcome 3.11.9-1 available.
It hopefully works around Welcomeā€™s pacdiff problem under wayland (by using xhost temporarily).

Please test it and report.

Note that it should complain if either xorg-xhost or diffuse is not installed.

Unfortunately meld is so slow (here in a VM) that it cannot really be used, thatā€™s why diffuse was selected.

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at first i was thinking yad was reverted :wink:
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GNOME shows the warning in a very huge window.

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Thanks! Have to make the warning smaller.

Edit: Done. Releasing to mirrors now.

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