Re: Shutdown as normal user
Michael P Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca> writes:
MPS> In a shell where you're logged in as yourself, type
MPS>
MPS> xhost +localhost
MPS>
MPS> or
MPS>
MPS> xhost + if you want to give global access.
You probably don't want to do this, unless you're comfortable with the
concept of any user on {your machine,the Internet} potentially spying
on and taking over your X display. I suspect this isn't what you
really want to do, though. Various more reasonable solutions to this
problem have been tossed around in the past; see the list archives for
details.
(IMHO, it's perfectly reasonable to not try to run graphical programs
as root in any case. But that's me.)
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