Re: allowing root to display to a user's X session
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 09:11, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > 'xhost +localhost' should fix the problem (this allows connections to
> > your x session from your local machine).
This actually gives me GTK+ errors and doesn't work.
>
> My preferred solution is to su to root and do:
>
> export XAUTHORITY=~myusername/.Xauthority ;export DISPLAY=:0.0
Thanks for this (and to the person who asked) I'd been wondering what to
do but hadn't got around to reading the man pages
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