Re: strange rvxt behaviour
On 15 Jan, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> I just upgraded to hamm and am having a peculiar problem: when I am in
> X as a user and I su to root in an rxvt terminal window, I am no loger
> able to open any rxvt terminal as a user. I get an error saying that
> rxvt cannot connect to a pseudo tty. This does not happen with xterm
> and if I log out as root everything works fine again.
>
> Root doesn't have rights to the X display because root doesn't own the
> display, the user who started the session does. A quick fix (but
> insecure) is to type `xhost +localhost' before su'ing to root. A
> better fix is to use xauth--try `man xauth' for more info.
my apologies - i was rather tired when i sent this out... after i su to
root i have an alias in bash that does two things: sets the DISPLAY
variable and does an xauth merge.
i also noticed that i can have up to three terms before the above
problem kicks in...
tnx,
tim
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