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display question



On 05/04/2011 11:48 AM, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> when some user owns the gnome desktop, another user
> opereating in a terminal window seems unable to open
> an application that needs the display.  how does one
> allow this?

The user that owns the display needs to run:
 xhost +

Then the console user can set their $DISPLAY to 0:0 and it will work.

Matt





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