Re: Multiple users (perhaps OT)
Sure:
xhost +localhost
su - username
export DISPLAY=localhost:0
>From here you can launch your X based apps. Change localhost and :0
respectively.
--
Arthur H. Johnson II, Debian GNU/Linux Advocate
Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA
President, Genesee County Linux Users Group
IRC: By-Tor@irc.debian.org,#debian
YIM: arthurjohnson
AIM: bytor4232
ICQ: 31770438
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ivar Alm wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a question that migh be OT. Doesn't have to do with laptops
> specifically.
> I want to allow more than one user to connect to the X server.
> The thing is that we are two people using my machine regularly at
> home, me and my girlfriend. I would like to log in as myself, start X
> and still have the possibility for her to su to her user and launch X
> programs.
> At the moment, the X server doesn't allow any other than the user who
> started X to start X applications. And if she wants to write texts and
> save to her user, we need to restart X, or she needs to work in a
> terminal.
> Can I authorize other users (not remotely?) logged in to start X
> applications?
>
> //Ivar
>
>
>
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: