[Gllug] can't switch between virtual terminals

[Christian Smith]

On 4 Aug 2003, Matthew King wrote:
>As for why root xterms cannot start X apps, there are a number of
>reasons. Debian may have some security thing (I haven't noticed) or
>Xauth may be denying access. The simplest way around this is 'xhost +'
>as user, the slightly less simple is to import xauth settings from user
>to root. I don't know how to do that.

Actually turns out to be surprisingly easy.

$ xauth list $DISPLAY
<blah>
$ su -
Password: 
# DISPLAY=:0.0 ; export DISPLAY
# xauth add <blah>


Christian

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