Il giorno ven, 21/02/2014 alle 21.58 +0000, Powell, Michael ha scritto: > > > It beats me why one would go through all the effort of extraordinary > > > measures so they can run as root, rather than just run as a user, and > > > use the system in a straight-forward manner. > > > > > > > Because I don't like to spend time to issue sudo or su - command everytime I > > need it. > > It's more hard for me to convert my environment to a normal user. > > What does it matter? He already knows running as root is not a secure use method, but debating such was not his question and isn't helping. > > Try the following: export DISPLAY = :0.0 > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16815/what-does-display-0-0-actually-mean Well... this is a solution. Well done. Naturally, this is not working without issuing xhost +. There is another solution, but it requires more CPU resources, that is switching user, but I imagine that it open another X server. Thankyou very mutch. I promise that I will work to convert everything to a normal user - maybe I will rename root ;-) Bye Ambrogio -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org