"D. R. Evans" <doc.ev...@gmail.com> writes: > 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. > > Anyway, after some more experimenting, I discovered that this works: > > sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm
I just have my /root/.Xauthority be a symbolic link to my user ~/.Xauthority, and that seems to work without specifying XAUTHORITY. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87pp5mbsc3.fsf@elk.localnet
