display question

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

On 05/04/2011 01:01 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.

Okay, if you don't trust your firewall then you can run:
 xhost localhost
instead.

Matt