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Bug#189167: marked as done (konsole: root session does not allow X connection)

Your message dated Sun, 14 May 2006 10:44:05 +0200
with message-id <20060514084405.GA3350@hades.madism.org>
and subject line konsole: a good thing to fix
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Package: konsole
Version: 4:3.1.1-1
Severity: wishlist

When I open a root console from konsole and start an X program, I get
(for example):

# du | xdu
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)
Error: Can't open display: :0.0

This is easily corrected by copying the appropriate .Xauthority to
root's home directory, but a bit annoying nonetheless.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux meiner 2.4.20 #1 Mon Feb 3 22:42:48 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages konsole depends on:
ii  kdelibs4                   4:3.1.1-1     KDE core libraries
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.11-3      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libc6                      2.3.1-16      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfam0c102                2.6.9-4       client library to control the FAM 
ii  libgcc1                    1:3.2.3-0pre8 GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0                 1.2.5-11      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt              3:3.1.1-7     Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++5                 1:3.2.3-0pre8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  xlibs                      4.2.1-6       X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.1.4-11    compression library - runtime

-- no debconf information

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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:34:30AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: konsole
> Version: 4:3.1.3-1
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #189167
> 
> This just bit me.  This really is the result of the interaction of KDE
> and Debian's default security, but the outcome is that KDE root
> consoles don't really have full functionality.  The current behavior
> violates the "no surprises" principle.  So I think it would be be good
> to change it.

  you just have to put

  export XAUTHORITY=${HOME}/.Xauthority

  in your appropriate .bashrc/.zshrc/...

  and that will work.  moreover, kde 'run as root' or kdesu, or... just
work as expected.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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