On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 06:31, Robert McBroom via users <users@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