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Re: DEITY TEAM -- REQUEST FOR FUNCTIONALITY and COMMENTS



Raul Miller <rdm@rdm.legislate.com> wrote:
|Chris Walker:
|> In order to run "make xconfig" when building a kernel, I have
|> symlinked root's .Xauthority to my user level account, this works,
|> but is not implemented by default, and there is must be a better
|> solution. Xdselect will have the same problem.
|
|One alternative is to have an alternate root account with same home
|directory as your personal account.  Then, su to that account.

If pointing X11 applications to the right .Xauthority file is your
problem, then you can set the XAUTHORITY envariable to the right
place.

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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