Re: login as root to GUI
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:26AM CEST, "tv.debian@googlemail.com" <tv.debian@googlemail.com> said:
> 19/05/2011 18:17, Dick Bayerl wrote:
> > I am frustrated. I have tried installing both UBUNTU and DEBIAN with
> > the same problem. I never can login to root so I can't make changes to
> > various files. Not the owner. I am just now installing DEBIAN on a
> > second machine and keeping careful notes about the password to see if
> > that will work. I really like the idea of working with DEBIAN and hope
> > I can get past this issue.
> > Dick Bayerl
> >
> >
>
> Hi, don't login as root in X, instead deactivate temporarily X-session
> access control, and launch desired gui tool as root:
>
> xhost +
>
> sudo whatever_gui_tool
NOT xhots + !!!
If you have to widen, just do xhost +local:
First command opens to the whole internet, second one only to connnections from localhost.
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