Re: Allowing root to display to X...

1999-09-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi all - I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work for

Allowing root to display to X...

1999-09-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - I remember hearing once that if you linked your ~/.Xauthority to /root/.Xauthority, a root shell would be able to run X applications (within your regular user's X session). However, I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work for me. Any ideas? I'm trying to install Sun's latest Star