Re: xhost working differently under Debian?!

[Eric Lavarde <Eric.Lavarde@bawue.de>]

Thanks,

it's not the answer to my question but to my problem... ;-)

I'm nevertheless still curious why xhost doesn't work, and why xhost is 
so BAAAAD...

Eric

Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote:
>
> > try   xhost +localhost
>
>
> Why are you even using xhost in the first place?  *shudder*.  At least use
> a mit-magic-cookie:
>
> su - someuser
> xauth merge ~userrunningX/.Xauthority
> export DISPLAY=:0 && some_app &
>  
>
> > i think no space after the "+"
>
>
> Doesn't matter --  both will work.  But really, the OP doesn't want to be
> using xhost...
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
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