Another hack to do this that is less insecure is (assuming you're logged in as "somebody" and running X):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/somebody# cp ~somebody/.Xauthority ~ --Tom Joseph On Saturday 15 September 2001 06:54 pm, Jason Boxman wrote: > On Saturday 15 September 2001 03:59 am, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > first of all i want to congratulate the packagers for their > > great effort in packaging KDE2.2! > > > > I do have a problem though... when I 'su' as a regular user > > i do not have access to the local Xserver to run X-programs. > > This worked before i upgraded to KDE2.2. I'm sure it is just > > a setting somewhere, but i really do not know where to look... > > I have the ultra insecure "xhost + &" in my .xsession file. Root can > access the X server fine. > > I do have notcp for X though. > > > Additionally, i would like to run software on a server at our > > university and view to output on my screen... this, ofcourse, > > does not work as well... > > > > Can anyone help me out? > > > > regards, > > > > Egon