Subject: Re: Launching an X window as root
From: James Gibson (twistedhammer@subdimension.com)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 16:43:30 AKST
you will want to run "xhost +local:" as the user who started the
Xserver... this sets the authorization setting to allow all local
connections (versus, say, TCP/IP connections)... if you JUST want
root on this machine to be able to do this (perhaps you are on a
multi-user machine) it would be "xhost +local:root"
James Gibson
On 16 Dec 2001, at 15:42, Mac Mason wrote:
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> I set this up on my old machine, but I have completely forgotten how I
> did it.
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> I use Eterm for my terminal work in X, and I want to be able to launch
> X programs as root and have them launch into my (user) X. When I run
> as root now, I get:
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> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
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> Anybody know where I tell X to use display 0 as the default?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ~Mac~
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