Re: allow display of different user's program window - how?

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 20:38:39 GMT

On 28 Mar 2005 11:56:16 -0800, hans_schulze98@yahoo.de staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
> I am running KDE under SUSE. When I run xterm or Konsole, type "su -
> otheruser" and then run a program that needs to open a window, it
> fails - no permission to open window. Even root cannot open a window
> on my screen. How do I allow this?

> kdesu works of course, but then you have to type the password
> everytime you run a program. Many years ago you could set the
> variable DISPLAY and say xhost +localhost, but all that does not work
> any more. (Permissions are set to "secure" in YaST).

This has nothing to do with YaST and everything to do with X. Go to
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search and put the string
slrnd3lqat.kd0.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@samantha.crow202.dyndns.org into
the "find messages with this Message-ID" field, then press "search".
You'll have to change kdm's config file and restart X to get the xhost
thing working as it used to work. 

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