Joe Smith wrote:
...
Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old configuration
working again?
Ack. You know, I've had so few real problems with F9 that I've gotten
totally rusty and dusty with age here. Cobwebs in the attic.
What's the first thing you check when a system that's
Joe Smith wrote:
I often need to test gui applications under a different login, so I can
easily wipe out .dotfiles and run with a known environment. I've had
this working since F8 with an xauth entry that allowed the other user
access to my display. All I needed was a terminal window logged in
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
... Any ideas what broke, or suggestions for getting my old
configuration working again?
Several thoughts... first, since you don't tell us what you meant by
an xauth entry that allowed the other user access to my display, no
one will see anything there.
Joe Smith wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
And finally, why not just ssh to the other user with X forwarding? ssh
-X [EMAIL PROTECTED] would let user2 run X apps without xhost
configuration.
Maybe some of that will help.
Yes, very helpful--thanks.
Good point; I forgot about ssh. It's
