Hi! Yogesh Sharma wrote: > > I am using woody + testing + some unstable: > > in xterm/gnome-terminal usually I do (as normal user) xhost +
Matt Zimmerman écrivait : > This disables access control in the X server. This is, almost always, a > very bad idea. A better way to allow it (when you switch from normal to root user) : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xauth merge ~test/.Xauthority [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# export DISPLAY=:0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# xterm # or whatever Xwindow program you want to run I can remember there was some 'su' feature doing it automagically somewhere (with RedHat, Mandrake or another one)... Cheers, J.C. -- Jean Christophe ANDRÉ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.vn.refer.org/ Coordonnateur technique régional / Associé principal technologie projet Reflets Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) / Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) / Note personnelle : merci d'évitez de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ou \ \ Word ; voir ici : http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html /
