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Re: Excess security measures



Gary L. Roach wrote:

> 1) Not being able to use Dolphin as root is annoying  beyond belief.
> Yes, I know, use sudo. What a  pain. I am in and out of root files
> constantly either copying or moving them. I always keep two tabs on my
> bash console, one as root and one as normal user.

Whenever I want to recompile the vmplayer drivers (which happens
automatically when you start the bui), I do xhost +local:0
su - or sudo and run vmplayer. After this xhost -local:0

I guess you are missing xhost +local:0



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