On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Normally I start X by startx which may be followed by an initialization file,
so I don't get the default spartan default twm all the time. In Linux and
FreeBSD, I generally use X as nonroot.
So I don't really know how to start a program such as xterm as another user
or how to have both root and nonroot windows in X.
Open a terminal, su - to root in it. In the exceptionally rare case of
needing to run a graphic program as root, also set the DISPLAY variable
to match the normal user's value, then run that program in the terminal.
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