Re: To use GUI as root

["Ciaran Johnston" <cj@nologic.org>]

Johan Sch said:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Debian.
>
> In Suse if you are normal user you use . sux - . to become root and be
> able to use GUI applications.
>
> Kindly please what would the same be in Debian.

Set your display as root:
export DISPLAY=:0.0

then allow localhost access to the display as normal user:
xhost + localhost


Regards,
Ciaran.