On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:48:32AM -0400, dan moylan wrote: > > when some user owns the gnome desktop, another user > opereating in a terminal window seems unable to open > an application that needs the display. how does one > allow this?
The easiest way to do this is to become the "other user" by running: ssh -X otheruser@localhost You can check that X forwarding is allowed by running: echo $DISPLAY As the otheruser in that terminal. If DISPLAY is unset, then you'll need to edit the sshd_config file, set "X11Forwarding yes" and restart sshd. Then you can run your X application in the terminal, and it will be forwarded into your current X session. There are other ways, but that's probably simplest and more secure than some other possibilities. -ben -- the harder i work, the luckier i get. <samuel goldwyn> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
