>>>Robert Vollmert wrote: > A safer solution would be to do (as root): > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 > # export XAUTHORITY=/home/yourname/.Xauthority
That worked until I started to work in a networked environment. Then I don't like all clients to have root access to the users home directory so the row sound be something like this. /usr/bin/X11/xauth -f /home/balp/.Xauthority extract - $DISPLAY /usr/bin/X11/xauth merge - / Balp
