- To: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Root access to X server
- From: Simon Wong <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 10 Jun 2003 09:59:05 +1000
- Cc: Slug <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:36, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Simon Wong wrote:
> >
> > The problem is with just the top one I get (with "export DISPLAY=:0.0":
> >
>
> try export DISPLAY=:0
No luck :-(
>
> have a look at the xauth list to see what you have...
Good tip!
What I had to do to get it working is do "xauth list" as my normal user,
then use "xauth add ..." as root to add each of the active cookies.
Works fine now but I'm not sure why the other commands don't work
automatically :-(
Nevermind...
Thanks...
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