Re: howto make root emacs open in X
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:19:03PM +0100, Tom Rauchenwald wrote:
> Harry P <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> > I'm running a recently installed lenny with default xfce desktop.
> >
> > While working in the X session I often ssh to root@localhost for a
> > root shell and have one running as I work. I'd like to be able to
> > open emacs from that root shell and have the emacs instance open in
> > the X session instead of a inside the root shell in console mode as it
> > currently does.
>
> ssh -X root@localhost
Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would propose to
use "su" to switch to a root account. In order to allow root the access
to the X-Server, it is sufficient to set the environment-variables
DISPLAY=":0"
XAUTHORITY="/home/username/.Xauthority"
, "username" beeing the user who is running the X-session.
Axel
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