Re: allow display of different user's program window - how?
From: cga (cga9999_at_softhome.net)
Date: 03/29/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:43:30 -0500
hans_schulze98@yahoo.de wrote:
> 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).
>
If I understand correctly this might help:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth-7.html
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