Re: Potato "testing"
On 2000/01/20, "Christopher S. Swingley" wrote:
> > > As my example showed, you must invoke X apps when su'ed as
> > >
> > > HOME=/home/ken xappname
> > >
> > > So it can find the Xauthority.
> >
> > Actually, it's probably cleaner to simply do
> >
> > XAUTHORITY=/home/someone/.Xauthority
>
> I just put
>
> xhost +localhost
>
> in my ~/.xinitrc before the exec to spawn my window manager.
Note that this opens your display and your keyboard up to anyone with an
account on your machine. If it's a home machine where you are the only user
anyway, it's probably not so bad, but in general it is not recommended.
- Ruud de Rooij.
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