On Friday, January 18, 2019 4:52:45 AM EST Chris Rouch wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 06:31, Robert McBroom via users <
>
> users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Upgraded to F29. On KDE desktop starting EMACS in a privileged command
> > window locks the system. Starting EMACS with sudo locks the system. On
> > XFCE4 normal EMACS access with privilege.
> >
> > Other file managers don't like root but there are times when cli is
> > awkward.
>
> I narrowed this down to xfconf-4.13.6-2.fc29.x86_64. Using an older version
> or removing it entirely makes emacs from sudo work as expected.
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667375
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
That said, please *do not run Emacs as root*, but rather try to use TRAMP and
sudo to access files when you need root permissions.