FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim

[Carl Johnson]

Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:14:40 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
>> I found the perfect way to do this : - )
>> 
>> Here is the preparation (as normal user) :
>> 
>> su -m root -c 'pw usershow my_normal_user_name &&\
>> touch /var/xauth.extract && \
>> chown my_normal_user_name /var/xauth.extract'
>> 
>> [ $? -eq 0 ] && xauth extract /var/xauth.extract $DISPLAY
>> 
>> Here is the follow-up (as root) :
>> 
>> xauth merge /var/xauth.extract
>> 
>> Now run whatever X stuff you want as root : - )
>
> Yes, working with xauth is much more comfortable than
> setting $DISPLAY and using "xhost +" to wide open. :-)

I just have /root/.Xauthority as a symbolic link to ~/.Xauthority for my
user login.  I think that should be safe for me as the sole user on this
system, and I don't have to fool with xhost.


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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org