Re: x and multiple users
from another console window - try startx -- :1
you are using :0 by default when you just do startx - the -- :1 forces
it to use display 1. then check ctrl+alt+f8 or f9 or whatever is 1
greater than your usual x display.
HTH
Shawn
--- Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> When I log in to X windows, I usually try not to log in as root. But
>
> sometimes I want to run a graphical program as root -- synaptic,
> say, or xconfig. so, since Gnome makes it somewhat difficult to
> directly run a command as another user (at least, unintuitive;
> something is not working with my gnome documentation, so I haven't
> gone through that stuff yet), I go into an xterm, su, and enter the
> command. WHen I do that, though, I get an error message saying user
> can't connect to display.
>
> Now I assume this is not an unavoidable consequence of running X --
> otherwise these graphical programs probably wouldn't exist, right?
> But I don't know how/ where to configure my xserver to let other
> users run commands on it. I'm using xfree86 4.1, by the way. Right
> now my solution is to log in to x as root (!) and do all my admin
> there, then log out again. But if I do that, then I can't (for
> instance) access mail with evolution, since I get that same error
> message about can't-connect-to-display. (I know, I know, I should be
>
> using Mutt -- but one thing at a time, please!) And since most of my
>
> admin questions are being answered via email... well, it all gets a
> bit hectic.
>
>
> so: is there a simple solution to this problem? Please say yes!
> thanks again,
>
> matt
>
>
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