Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: > On 5/8/05, Dmitri Vassilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sunday May 8 2005 22:14, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: >> >>>How do I enable programs which are executed by the root to connect to >>>the X server? >> >>I think if you're doing this locally, you can just copy .Xauthority in the >>directory of the user currently using the server to /root/ (or whatever >>root's home directory is). > > Thanks Dimitri and to everyone who replied to this thread. >
Maybe a slightly better approach: I put this in root's .bashrc: xauth merge ~yoyo/.Xauthority when the information in .Xauthority changes, this get's it again, and doesn't destroy any previous (if i connect as root to some other X server) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
