On 2020-06-01 05:35, bruce wrote:
However, if I fire up a term as another user, and then from the cmdline, fire up chromium, I get an err msg No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 I've been researching trying to figure out how to resolve this.
The new user must have the EXPORT variable set to :0 export DISPLAY=:0 but you probably already have it, given the error message above. The new user must also be authorized to connect to the X server, you have to run this as the OLD user, in your case it would be the (very unsafe) root user. xhost si:localuser:thenameofthenewuser This should be enough to open a new browser, then additional steps are needed if you want for example ability to play sound. Having different browsers running as different users for different tasks is a good idea (better cookie privacy, different config and extensions, ...), but running your main session as root is something being considered a really bad idea for at least 25 years. Regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
