On 01.02.2014 04:55, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
I want to run root X application in a terminal.
[root@archbox ~]# smplayer
smplayer: cannot connect to X server
[root@archbox ~]#
I followed the wiki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root
added export XAUTHORITY=/home/archie/.Xauthority to /etc/profile.
After this I am not able to login with my user account archie through gdm.
Deleting the added line to /etc/profile let me log back in.
How can I get this thing working as I wish?
I definitely don't prefer the method given under temporarily allow root
access as per the wiki page, since in other distribution I can start the X
applications in a root terminal without a hitch. I would like to start
root X applications in a terminal.
why don't you just use sudo?
$ sudo env
...
DISPLAY=:0
XAUTHORITY=/home/damjan/.Xauthority
...
those are propagated by default (I don't remember setting this up)
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дамјан
