Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]
"D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> writes:
> D. R. Evans wrote on 05/26/2015 04:52 PM:
>
>>
>> If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that:
>> n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
>
> I probably misunderstood you.
>
> Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works:
>
> sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm
I just have my /root/.Xauthority be a symbolic link to my user
~/.Xauthority, and that seems to work without specifying XAUTHORITY.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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