From kde  Thu Oct 18 22:59:33 2007
From: Ryo Furue <furue () hawaii ! edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:59:33 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: [kde] Konsole unable to start xapps as root in Archlinux
Message-Id: <20071018.125933.254204145.furue () hawaii ! edu>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=119274846008387

Hi,

| On Thursday 18 October 2007 20:06, Kevin Krammer wrote:
| > On Thursday 18 October 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
[. . .]
| > % xhost +local:root
[. . .]
| Bingo! Thanks Kevin, that works like magic.
| 
Another method is, as root

   # xauth merge ~username/.Xauthority
   # DISPLAY=:0
   # export DISPLAY

where "username" is the name of the ordinary user
that you were, before "su"-ing.

On a multi-user host, xhost allows other users to use
your screen, so xauth method is a bit better.

Ryo
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