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Re: xhost-command in Debian11



On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:21:10PM +0200, BerndSchmittNews wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I used to use xhost-command and su -l ... -c ... to run programs as a
> different user in debian10. In debian11 I get an error about having no
> DISPLAY env variable specified.
> 
> Does xhost work different now?

No. It's the su, dropping the DISPLAY environment variable. Try adding
the option `--whitelist-environment=DISPLAY to your su command (hint:
you can add more variables to that whitelist, comma separated).

HTH, cheers
 - t

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