On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hi all - > > I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to > /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within > your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem > to work for me. > > Any ideas? I'm trying to install Sun's latest Star Office.
This idea is a nasty hack and it should not be used. Instead, try using ssh: 1. Install the ssh package if you haven't already done so (it's in the non-US/non-free section). 2. Add these two lines to either /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config (Debian is the only system I know of that has X11 forwarding turned off by default in ssh): Host localhost ForwardX11 yes 3. Inside an xterm, rxvt, eterm or whatever, run this command: ssh -l root localhost Now ssh will automatically take care of the DISPLAY variable and X authorisation. It may seem overkill to use ssh to log in as root on the local system, but it is the only method I've come across that addresses this problem in a nice and clean way. Remco -- rd1936: 2:30am up 2 days, 3:45, 5 users, load average: 1.32, 1.38, 1.51