Hi,
I install Twilio Authy 1.8.3 via snap. The first time I ran it, no issue.
Now, when I tried to run it from the search bar it does not open.
When I tried to run it via the terminal, I get the following error:
$ authy
(authy:43597): Gtk-WARNING **: 17:59:05.444: cannot open display: :0
I have a fresh install of manjaro-gnome (Nibia 20.2).
Most research results points to wayland issues and are quite old. I understand I am using wayland as it is the default settings, right?
I don’t know if Wayland is default but the error is consistent with a system using Wayland.
This is because Wayland do not allow X applications to be run with root permissions.
Logoff and the select the gear icon to change session to an Xorg session - login - then it will work.
You may be able to start the app using pkexec which is the polkit pendant to sudo.
I have seen a number of comments about having this error when running an app with sudo.
Please note that I am not trying to run the app with sudo. authy is a google authenticator app, it has no reason to run sudo.
I have fixed the issue by deleting the snap version and instead using the AUR package.
Now I wonder I am going to run into the same issue for all snap I may install?