display question

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:57:48PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> 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.


Major security risk, do not do this on a networked system, a multiuser
system or one in which you don't completely understand the X
authentication system.


-dsr-

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