How to run gui app as another user on wayland

Question

With Xorg, I could just do

xhost +si:localuser:foxy

to run GUI app as foxy user.

But can I do this on Wayland ? I tried following:-

chmod o+rw /run/user/1000/wayland-0

but It still gives Permission denied

[foxy@titan levi]$ QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000  konsole
Failed to create wl_display (Permission denied)
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: wayland-org.kde.kwin.qpa, eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.
Aborted (core dumped)

I'm using kwin_wayland 5.20.2

EDIT: I dont want to use root

@ScroogeMcDuck nah, I Dont want to use xwayland. – LightSith Dec 24 '22 at 12:08 — LightSith, Dec 24 '22 at 12:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '20 at 07:05

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Switch to user sudo su username or sudo su - username and then type the name of the app. This is the trivial way.

answered Nov 08 '20 at 07:05

Sysadmin

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yeah, this works but I want to run app as less privileged user – voldimot Nov 08 '20 at 09:11
You can see this link: https://serverfault.com/questions/507807/the-opposite-of-su-run-a-command-without-root-privileges I hope this partially suites your needs. – Sysadmin Jan 05 '21 at 23:43
$ sudo su username then xcalc or logseq or whatever, and nothing works... – Grzegorz Wierzowiecki Mar 26 '24 at 06:54

How to run gui app as another user on wayland

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