From: Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Cut'n'Paste via "*p and different users Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:19:29 -0500
> > I was wondering, whether the clipboard-problem is caused > > by some (possible wrong) settings of my system or a > > normal behaviour of X/mrxvt and whether there are tricks > > to make the clibboard working "inter-user-al" :) ... it > > is so cool to use "*p !!! > > > The following information is 100% untested, but my > understanding is that the X server has to be authorized (via > the "MIT Magic Cookie") to accept connections from clients. > > Quoting directly from Loren M. Lang's post (found at > http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.questions/browse_thread/thread/dc2159c366eb9064/e9001ce2abaec9d3?lnk=st&q=run+x+application+as+different+user&rnum=4#e9001ce2abaec9d3 > > > > sorry for the long link) <snipped but never forgotten! :) > > > My guess is that, as root, you want to try something like > > XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority gvim file1.txt > > The old-school way of doing this was to tinker with xhost to > allow a whole host (rather than a particular user) to connect to > the X server. > > The aim is to allow your alternate user (root in this case) > permission to connect to the X server so that it can access the > clipboard(s). My understanding is that the keys found in the > .Xauthority file are the way to do this...that the alternate user > has to have the key. > > Or I could be talking bunk. YMMV :) > > -tim > Hi Tim ! thanks a lot for that ! Simply: IT WORKS! Keep hacking! mcc
