[Blackburn] Networking

[Mick Brooks]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:39:30PM +0100, steve at localcomputer.co.uk wrote:
> Earlier, Konrad wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I can run shell commands as root this way, but how can I run X
> > programs as root, when logged in to KDE as a normal user?
> 
> The same way... try it! Though in general running an X application as root
> is not a good idea.

Have a quick read of the xhost man page first.

This would work, but is very insecure, which may or may not matter to
you:

As user who logged into KDE:
$ xhost +

Then as root start the program you want to see.

Hope that helps,

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks at physics.ox.ac.uk