Nextcloud starts as root when I open Grub Customizer

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Hi everyone, when I run Grub Customizer from the application menu or through terminal using sudo grub-customizer, the nextcloud client is also run as root.
The problem has also been reported in the Nextcloud forum (here)

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The fact that it opens Nextcloud is an annoying thing and is also a possible security issue since it runs with root privileges.

installed packages:

nextcloud-client.x86_64                           3.7.4-1.fc38                        @fedora                                     
nextcloud-client-libs.x86_64                      3.7.4-1.fc38                        @fedora                                     
nextcloud-client-nautilus.x86_64                  3.7.4-1.fc38                        @fedora  

grub-customizer.x86_64                            5.2.3-1.fc38                        @updates
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if you are not using nextcloud, feel free to remove it: sudo dnf nextcloud-client*

Are you logging in to your desktop as root - you shouldn’t do that!

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I’m using Nextcloud client on my PC with my selfhosted instance.
No, I’m not logged in as root, the root account is disabled.
I decided to remove grub-customizer as it doesn’t work very well with Fedora, there are long time open bugs that are not being fixed (for example this)

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