On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 23:22, Jonathan Singer wrote: > Andrew Farmer: > > Use xauth properly instead: run `xauth list' as user, run `xauth add' with > > the output as root. > > This works for me, but needs to be repeated each time X restarts. > > Hall Stevenson: > > I've got what's supposedly the > > "proper" and safe way to solve this, but it's on my Debian box at home. If > > no one posts it, I can in a few hours. > > I'd very much appreciate your posting it. I've been trying to get this > working for nearly a year and while I've received many suggestions, none > have worked.
Here it is: # allow root to run programs when another # user is running X if [ ! "$USER" = "root" ]; then export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority fi Add this to root's .bashrc file. Hall -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
