From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 15 10:11:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3B637B405 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:11:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail6-sh.home.nl (mail6.home.nl [213.51.128.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DBBF43FA3 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 4real@home.nl) Received: from home.nl ([217.121.138.198]) by mail6-sh.home.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with ESMTP id <20030215181146.QPFC10408.mail6-sh.home.nl@home.nl>; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:11:46 +0100 Message-ID: <3E4E82C1.9020108@home.nl> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:11:13 +0100 From: Dennis <4real@home.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030213 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kitsune Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Running X program under different user References: <3E4E7786.2010809@home.nl> <20030215070149.7b96478d.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <20030215070149.7b96478d.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG kitsune wrote: >On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:23:18 +0100 >Dennis <4real@home.nl> wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm a former kde user, using Windowmaker now.... >> >>And in the past i always used RUN in kde, to startup my favourite irc >>client... >> >>RUN had several options to execute programs under a different user etc, >>which comes in handy when using IRC... >> >> > >if that run thing was a command that can be done then it can still be used under windowmaker... > > > >>But now i need to use SU i think to accomplish this, but it doesnt work :( >> >> > >wierd it works here... >su -c > >example... >su kitsune -c scilab >this will su user kitsune and then run scilab > > > >>Does anyone know which command i can use to execute an X program under a >>different user? >> >> > >this will work too... >ssh 127.0.0.1 -X -l >the -X turns on X forwarding > > > > when i try su [user] -c xchat, i get this error: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 RUN in kde was a kde-specific command...i think it was in the KDE Panel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message