Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-18 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 1/12/22 9:38 PM, lejeczek via users wrote: On 11/01/2022 19:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-14 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/11/22 11:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su -

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-12 Thread lejeczek via users
On 11/01/2022 19:54, C Linus Hicks wrote: Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-12 Thread Tim via users
Hi L, > How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? > I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with > windows OS. Seeing as no-one has said this, yet: *** Running things as root is ill-advised. *** While running a file manager as root to deal with some user file

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread linux guy
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Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread C Linus Hicks
Making some assumptions about your requirements: 1. Make sure xauth is installed 2. Your DISPLAY environment variable is likely: ":0" - just verify it is set 3. Run the command: "xauth list" 4. Copy the line that has "/unix:", all three parts 5. Use su - or sudo to get an interactive session for

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread Joe Zeff
On 1/11/22 10:32 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app from prompt with & to release it from Terminal. Kind of works. I use Xfce and have this one liner to run Thunar as root: beesu - thunar

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread lejeczek via users
On 11/01/2022 17:32, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to

Re: sudo / su with GUI apps - ?

2022-01-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 1/11/22 12:23, lejeczek via users wrote: Hi guys. How do you get your Firefox to run/work with different user? I'm thinking obvious - sudo, su - kind of 'runas' with windows OS. Kludge I have used for some apps, notably my file browser to run as root is to: in Terminal su - run app