On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Now my problem is: Usually only I have the right to display a new window > on my screen, not any daemon user, no normal user and and certainly not > root. Any pointers how to do that?
Suppose you know the user which is running the xserver (=$XUSER). Then you can use the following as privileged user: su $XUSER -c 'xmessage hello' You can also use 'sudo' to allow this for an unprivileged user... But how to get $XUSER? Henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
