On Saturday 20 October 2007, Ryo Furue wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > | Hi Ryo. I'm really trying to find what the Archlinux guys have done > | so that KDE's Konsole cannot open Xapps when su'ed to root. > | > | I've no problem on my Fedora, and Debian installs. I can su to root on > | Konsole, and open kwrite, kate, gedit, synaptic, and you name it. > > That's interesting. (Sorry I didn't read your previous messages > carefully and didn't realize that that was what you are really trying > to solve.) > > It's interesting, because I'm using the testing distribution of > Debian, and I can NOT su to root and open kwrite, kate, or and GUI > program, without the xauth trick I mentioned. > > So, I'm really curious why you can do that on your Fedora > and YOUR Debian. Yes, same here. The behavior Nigel sees on Archlinux is quite certainly the default behavior of X. I would rather assume that Fedora and "Nigel's Debian" :) did something additional. It is also not related to Konsole, any shell either in a terminal window or on one of Linux's virtual consoles will do. The only difference is that in a terminal window like Konsole, a simple su will usually keep the environment of the shell, in this case the DISPLAY variable "pointing" to the X session the terminal window is hosted in. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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