From kde Wed Oct 24 11:30:55 2007 From: Kevin Krammer Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:30:55 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] Konsole unable to start xapps as root in Archlinux Message-Id: <200710241331.12548.kevin.krammer () gmx ! at> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=119322627122594 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0063352779==" --===============0063352779== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1460163.mGSmDa81SV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1460163.mGSmDa81SV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryo Furue wrote: > Thanks for the info! That's a good solution. It seems that > kdesu copies some information from your (ordinary user's) > .Xauthority to a temporary file and sets root's XAUTHORITY > environmental variable to point to the temp. file. > > I wish the "su" command had such an option. I normally use > Konsole's There is another utility called "sux" which does exactly that :) Cheers, Kevin =2D-=20 Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring --nextPart1460163.mGSmDa81SV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHHy0AnKMhG6pzZJIRAk6uAJ9pMlLtnWjoGKLIY0ymAIZ+3BmKyACdFERv NvEl7aEStfMOnLJQH0INzzo= =Yr6D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1460163.mGSmDa81SV-- --===============0063352779== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. --===============0063352779==--