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Whoever has access to your wayland socket can display applications. Root already has access to all the things so for running apps as root (e.g. wireshark) you j

Whoever has access to your wayland socket can display applications. Root already has access to all the things so for running apps as root (e.g. wireshark) you just need to configure sudo/doas/whatever-you-use to keep XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and WAYLAND_DISPLAY. e.g. in my doas.conf: permit setenv { HOME LC_ALL TERM XDG_RUNTIME_DIR WAYLAND_DISPLAY } greg as root and I can just run 'doas wireshark'.

TacticalCoder 7y ago
Very interesting, thanks a lot. I'll definitely give Wayland a try soon!
Bnshsysjab 7y ago
What about running a GUI from a local or remote ssh session? Eg previously I would execute DISPLAY=:0 mplayer foo.avi to play remotely or ssh -X root@foo xcalc to display xcalc on my local monitor but execute on rhost
- klardotsh 7y ago
  To some extent you're looking for Waypipe, which aims to bring the X-style network transparency model to Wayland apps: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe
- GrayShade 7y ago
  X forwarding works just fine with Xwayland.