Long story short, you hacked your own solution to achieve something
that is provided by other software, and now it doesn't work anymore.
And you call it a bug that you "hope" somebody else will fix. Without
even providing a full explanation or the the code of your hacks (and
no, I'm not interested).

And furthermore, you tell the people trying to help you that they
"first better do a web research for starting a program under a
different user name in Linux."

FWIW, I installed xhost and disabled access control with it, and
pcmanfm starts normally with the command from my previous mail.


On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 01:30 +0100, U.Mutlu wrote:
> It's been a long time ago when I coded this for my private use,
> and its been much C++ code (b/c I needed also some other features
> like auto-mounting/unmounting an encrypted filesystem image etc etc).
> 
> I just looked in the source code and one needs to do
> these steps as user to grant desktop access to an other user/users:
> 
> xhost +SI:localuser:$UN
> ...
> xhost -SI:localuser:$UN
> 
> See manpage of xhost for details.
> And "xhost" as user to show the granted users.
> 
> But first better do a web research for starting a program under a
> different 
> user name in Linux. Maybe nowadays such a solution already exists out
> there.
> Old Windows XP had "runas.exe", and that had inspired me to have same
> under Linux.
> There was none for Linux when I needed this feature many years ago,
> so I hacked a Q&D one for my own use. It's a messy code, not ready
> for any release nor support due to lack of time.
> 
> And: I'm running X11, not wayland.
> 
> 
> D.T. wrote on 12/10/23 12:21:
> > > But, as said, pcmanfm does not work anymore when started under a
> > > different
> > > username but the desktop username. This is of course bad, even a
> > > bug, IMO. I
> > > hope it gets fixed.
> > > 
> > Nothing against hoping per se, but right now it's a bug only
> > according to you.
> > If you want to fix your problem you should start some serious
> > troubleshooting.
> > Maybe you will then find out there's a solution. If not you can
> > still use your
> > troubleshooting insights
> > to properly file a bug.
> > 
> > If you walk us through the process of how you added the new user
> > and how you
> > start pcmanfm
> > we can help with the troubleshooting.
> > 
> > I just tried with some unused user I have:
> > 
> > > sudo -u unused_user DISPLAY=:0 pcmanfm Authorization required,
> > > but no
> > authorization protocol specified Cannot open display: |
> > 
> > Are you seeing the same?
> > 
> > Also tell us if you're running X11 or wayland.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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