Re: Emacs from Xterm
Bill Spears <bspears@easystreet.com> writes:
> I've finally gotten Debian (and KDE) up and was about to burn a CD when I
> discovered that I didn't have cdrecord installed. apt-get worked
> beautifully. But then I found I didn't have ide-scsi installed. So I tried
> emacs /etc/lilo.conf from an xterm and got error: emacs couldn't connect to
> Xserver and some suggestions about xhost, which didn't work. So I used vi and
> it worked. But I like to use emacs (it does work from the menus), and I need
> to use it as root sometimes (anybody knowing how to use a user started Emacs
> process as root) please jump in). I figured this is an X security problem,
> but still don't know what to do.
`xhost +localhost' will let you run X apps when su'ed to root. This is
however a terrible idea security-wise. A much, much better approach is
to do `emacs -nw' so Emacs runs in a terminal window without X.
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Booting... /vmemacs.el
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