Yes, I was connected via a remote session.
Don't know that I will try timeshift again. It rendered my system unbootable. Then REAR wouldn't recover my system either (it didn't like that I had a RAID 5).
So right now I'm trying to reinstall from scratch. I'm in for a long day.
Also, I need...
When I use timeshift-launcher the results are identical to launching it from the Activities menu, but there is one additional, probably important, clue. There is a message in the console window saying "Gtk-WARNING **: current time: cannot open display.
Output of id:
uid=1000(howard)...
I'm already a member of wheel. I previously tried my normal password, and that doesn't work either. In that case, the Timeshift GUI just exits with no message at all.
Using Rocky Linux 9.2.
Installed and am using Timeshift. Seems to be working - snapshots are being created on the schedule I asked for.
If I click on Activities and select Timeshift it tells me authentication is required to run as superuser. I give it my superuser password and Timeshift...