Hi Roberto Thanks for the reply. On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:38 AM Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > I tried to implement your suggestion as follows: logged in as root in a "root" term window echo $DISPLAY (shows) :0.0 xhost si:root:test (generates) root:test being added to access control list X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 109 (X_ChangeHosts) Value in failed request: 0x9 Serial number of failed request: 7 Current serial number in output stream: 9 which doesnt appear to "succeed"! And yes, I know logging/running as root is "bad". I'd still like to know how to resolve this issue, as opposed to just saying don't do this. thanks _______________________________________________ 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
