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On 9/16/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> before I |
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> emerge -e system/world |
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> my whole system I could allow root to open the X display by typing |
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> xhost +local:root ??? |
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> . This seems to not to work any longer. |
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> When starting ethereal/wireshark I get: |
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> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: |
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> . |
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> I searched the gentoo wiki for matches to combinations of |
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> X11 root xhost |
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> and such but didnt find anything else than the xhost command as shown |
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> above. |
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> Is there any way to allow root to use the X display when a user has |
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> opened the session and su'ed to root ? |
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> Thank you very much for any help in advance ! |
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I am able to (for example) open xterm as root by doing: |
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sudo xterm -display :0.0 |
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This tells xterm what xserver to run on (0.0 in my case) and also |
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works outside of Xorg. |
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Hope that helps. |
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Neil Isaac |
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isaac.neil@×××××.com |
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