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

On Saturday 20 October 2007 03:52, 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.

I understand that this is off topic for this KDE forum,
but if you find any clue, I'd appreciate it if you forward
it to me (or us).

Cheers,
Ryo

Hi Ryo.
Well I remember ages ago having this same problem on a distro, and having
resolved it. Looking back through all my notes, and Doh, I see it was on
Debian. The fix I got was to add the following to /root/.bashrc
export XAUTHORITY=/home/<username>/.Xauthority

That made a permanent change, and I could now start Xapps as root on my Debian
installs.

Fedora though is different, and I've always been able to start Xapps as root
from Konsole. That's on all Fedora versions from FC1 through to Fedora 7. I
looked in /root/.bashrc, and there's nothing there to indicate some default
setup to allow this.

Anyway, I'll try that one liner in /root/.bashrc on Archlinux, that works on
my Debian installs as a permanent fix.

Thanks for your help.

Nigel.

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