On Sun, 6 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Another idea, the simplest one I could think of: in your startx script, add > the line ``cat ~root/.Xauthority >> ~/.Xauthority'' just after > ``serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"''. First startx as root > to > create the ~root/.Xauthority file and chgrp it so that only users in a group > who locally access the machine can read it. Only problem is the file is > re-created whenever root uses startx, but I'd start X as the normal user > anyway.
Far more easy method: 1. install ssh (from section non-us/net) 2. do "ssh -l root localhost" in an xterm to become root 3. in this root shell, start any X program to test it Ssh takes care of X11 forwarding automatically. This was done to make it easy to run X programs on a remote host and have them use the local display, but it goes equally well if you connect to the local host as another user. I admit ssh is overkill for this. But if you have enough memory, it is by far the easiest method. Remco
