Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com):
> D. R. Evans wrote on 05/26/2015 04:52 PM:
> 
> > 
> > If I understand you correctly, I think that you are saying that:
> >   n7dr@shack:~$ AUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority HOME=/root sudo -E xterm
> 
> I probably misunderstood you.

No, but you left out the X in XAUTHORITY.

> Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works:
> 
> sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their help.

Cheers,
David.


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