How to run an application in X under another user?



Good day.

As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with

su - another_user
another_user$ oowriter

I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display.
How this can be overcome?

Thank You for Your time.


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



Relevant Pages

  • Re: How to run an application in X under another user?
    ... As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with ... I get error messages notifying me that it can not open a display. ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... Trouble? ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: not autocompleting
    ... For those I neither get the autocomplete when using OOo applications ... (oowriter, oocalc...), though it works with the usual bash built-in tools ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?
    ... On 2010-04-13 23:24, Sthu Deus wrote: ... I have oowriter from testing repo installed w/ all the necessary ... v3.2 from Sid opens much faster than any other version I've seen. ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: not autocompleting
    ... For those I neither get the autocomplete when using OOo applications ... (oowriter, oocalc...), though it works with the usual bash built-in ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: How to run an application in X under another user?
    ... Sthu Deus wrote: ... As I try to run oowriter in terminal under another user with ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... Trouble? ...
    (Debian-User)