Re: XFree86 4.2 bug in Debian Testing

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Rick Moen wrote:

> > mfluch@seneca:~$ su
> > Password: 
> > root@seneca:/home/mfluch> export XAUTHORITY=/home/mfluch/.Xauthority 
> > root@seneca:/home/mfluch> 
> > 
> > ...and then every X application works just as before as the normal user.
> 
> It's a little simpler to do:
> 
> $ ssh -X root@localhost

Even easier: the following lines in the /root/.bashrc do the same trick:

if [ ! "$LOGNAME" = "root" ]; then 
    export XAUTHORITY=/home/$LOGNAME/.Xauthority
fi

And then su works without any problem (and computational overhead as the
ssh sollution).

Cheers,
- Martin