Re: Potato "testing"
Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> > It's even worse than that. If I su (in an xterm) and
> > then try to run gnome-apt I get an error, root isn't
> > allowed access to the display. So you CAN'T run
> > gnome-apt UNLESS you are logged in as root under XDM
> > or startx from a console when you are logged in as
> > root. IOW either xdm must allow root login, or don't
> > install xdm if you want to use gnome-apt.
>
> As my example showed, you must invoke X apps when su'ed as
>
> HOME=/home/ken xappname
>
> So it can find the Xauthority.
Actually, it's probably cleaner to simply do
XAUTHORITY=/home/someone/.Xauthority
- Ruud de Rooij.
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