[GRLUG] root on Fedora 15

Godwin geektoyz at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 22:15:45 EDT 2011


Generally,  the "xhost" command grants X access to others in your session.

G-
 On Sep 22, 2011 3:42 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Kyle <dontwantspam1 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> Try "su -" instead of "sudo su".
>
> I think the big problem here is going to be that X11 doesn't give a
> darn about Linux privileges; X authentication handshaking needs to
> happen.
>
> I haven't mastered the manual side of that art myself, so, for now, I
> use programs like gksudo to handle it for me.
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