[Gllug] Running X apps as root in Debian

[Paul Brazier]

> > # xauth merge ~user/.Xauthority
> > 
> > Things should work magically from there on in. HTH!
> > 
> 
> Or, as I do it:
> 
> cp /home/nickm/.Xauthority /root
> 
> which has fewer keystrokes :-)

Thanks for all the suggestions - I'll try them out tonight.

So is the .Xauthority file a kind of "password" that is needed for a
client application (running as some user) to connect to the X server?
But it's the same for all users?

Paul


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