"CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/<username> to
> /root and starting X as root would then be ok....However, I am
> unsure whether this would compromise certain security features,
> etc....
This is also OK, but I would just set the equivalent
environmentvariable. "export XAUTHORITY=/home/foo/.Xauthority" as root
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Ciao,
Martin
