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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 21:14:40 +0000, Manish Jain wrote:
> I found the perfect way to do this : - )
> 
> Here is the preparation (as normal user) :
> 
> su -m root -c 'pw usershow my_normal_user_name &&\
> touch /var/xauth.extract && \
> chown my_normal_user_name /var/xauth.extract'
> 
> [ $? -eq 0 ] && xauth extract /var/xauth.extract $DISPLAY
> 
> Here is the follow-up (as root) :
> 
> xauth merge /var/xauth.extract
> 
> Now run whatever X stuff you want as root : - )

Yes, working with xauth is much more comfortable than
setting $DISPLAY and using "xhost +" to wide open. :-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...