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Subject: display question
From: me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:57:48 -0400
In-reply-to: <20110504154831.GA3766@betelgeuse>
References: <20110504154831.GA3766@betelgeuse>

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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- display question
  - From: jdm-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org (dan moylan)

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