On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I've succeeded in making heyu run as a normal user. But one of its >> functions is to intercept an x10 palmpads output and control xmms for >> when I'm in the basement playing pool with the neighbors. >> >> I know its against everyones better judgment here, but x is running as >> root and will be. >> >> So now these xmms control functions are blocked by its not having >> access to the display when its launched by gene. I just tried adding >> gene to the screen group, but that made no difference. >> >> What would be the correct method to give gene access to a root >> xserver? > >I do not understand why you have to run X as root just for X-10 >control. That's because I'm a stubborn old fart and run myself as root 99.9% of the time. >Opening up the X display when it is being run as root is >also not a good idea. But if you are determined to do it this way, >then you have a couple of options. One way is to run "xhost +gene" >in the X secession to give gene access to the display. Which it does not, gene seems to be an invalid user. >Another way >is to copy the /root/.Xauthority file to the home directory of the >people that you want to access the X display, and make it readable >to them. Keep in mind that this file changes every time you start X. > >You should probably read the xhost and xauth man pages. You can >fine tune the access xhost gives. You can use xauth to control the >access keys used by the X server. > >There used to be at lease one X-10 package that would work with the >CM11A that used a client/server approach that would let you talk to >the daemon from other machines on the network and would let >user-space programs issue/monitor X-10 commands. That I believe was the much older heyu/xtend combo. The new heyu doesn't need xtend now, but the config has changed. FWIW xhost + allows it to run, but as gene it doesn't seem to have perms to do anything but quit. No skin, no playlist etc. >Mikkel >-- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, >for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
