Re: [kde] Konsole unable to start xapps as root in Archlinux

On Saturday 20 October 2007, Ryo Furue wrote:
Hi Nigel,

| Hi Ryo. I'm really trying to find what the Archlinux guys have done
| so that KDE's Konsole cannot open Xapps when su'ed to root.
|
| I've no problem on my Fedora, and Debian installs. I can su to root on
| Konsole, and open kwrite, kate, gedit, synaptic, and you name it.

That's interesting. (Sorry I didn't read your previous messages
carefully and didn't realize that that was what you are really trying
to solve.)

It's interesting, because I'm using the testing distribution of
Debian, and I can NOT su to root and open kwrite, kate, or and GUI
program, without the xauth trick I mentioned.

So, I'm really curious why you can do that on your Fedora
and YOUR Debian.

Yes, same here. The behavior Nigel sees on Archlinux is quite certainly the
default behavior of X.

I would rather assume that Fedora and "Nigel's Debian" :) did something
additional.

It is also not related to Konsole, any shell either in a terminal window or on
one of Linux's virtual consoles will do.
The only difference is that in a terminal window like Konsole, a simple su
will usually keep the environment of the shell, in this case the DISPLAY
variable "pointing" to the X session the terminal window is hosted in.

Cheers,
Kevin


--
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

___________________________________________________
This message is from the kde mailing list.
Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.
Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.
More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Popup Message unter Linux?
    ... Nachricht an alle *aktiven* Konsolen. ... Bei einem Debian geht das ... kwrited (und auch Konsole (ich meine jetzt diesen xterm Ersatz von KDE)) ...
    (de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc)
  • Re: gdm 2.20.x spinnt
    ... Okay, der ganz grobe Bug ist raus, das Umschalten auf die Konsole ... ist ctrl-alt-Fx. ... Kann ich auf meinem Debian nicht nachvollziehen. ...
    (de.comp.os.unix.apps.gnome)
  • Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys
    ... Alan Chandler writes: ... My version of Konsole is standard Debian. ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: mapping not working right?
    ... Is that a bug and if so do I get a free Vim download or ... Konsole at home and I heard that Konsole does not always work right ... No - it does not work in plain regular GVim 7.0 running in Debian ...
    (comp.editors)
  • Re: [kde] Konsole unable to start xapps as root in Archlinux
    ... Fedora, and Debian installs, but am having a problem with Archlinux. ... Apparently the default behaviour of Konsole in Archlinux is to deny the ... this is the output when trying to open Kwrite as root. ...
    (KDE)