>>>>> On 15 Jun 2002 05:49:06 +0800, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Dan> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has Dan> been posted to gnu.emacs.bug as well. Dan> This may be a debian specific problem, hence the CC. Dan> It may be "user lack of understanding". If so, "then beef up Dan> the FAQs". Or maybe I didn't look. Anyways, I solved the Dan> problem. I put Dan> xhost local:root #dangerous? else root can't open an Dan> emacs window Dan> in ~/.xsession. Anyways, the problem was: Dan> How do I get emacs to run as root when I do su, in its own X Dan> window? $ su Dan> # emacs run it as "DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=~name-of-user-running-x/.Xauthority emacs" or as someone else suggested use sudo. Jim -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @ http://people.debian.org/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
