Comments on: Question of the Day - 15 Sept. 2007 http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:33:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hieronymus http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-417 Hieronymus Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:13:19 +0000 http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-417 You can also just type in 'xhost +' from the user's commandline to allow anyone (and anything from anywhere!) to display a X window on your monitor. Or, to limit it a little bit, 'xhost +local:local' only allows local programs to show up. You can also just type in ‘xhost +’ from the user’s commandline to allow anyone (and anything from anywhere!) to display a X window on your monitor. Or, to limit it a little bit, ‘xhost +local:local’ only allows local programs to show up.

]]> By: edvard http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-414 edvard Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:15:53 +0000 http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-414 Sux Homepage: http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml And Gentoo's doc page on running X as super user (god bless 'em) http://mirror.eacoss.org/documentation/gentoo/su-x.html So it looks like Kdesu is another solution, although you can't run console applications. Ubuntu favors gksudo, and it works well. Mostly for running Synaptic with root privilege. Homepage for the gksu library: http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/ Ubuntu HowTo page: http://ubuntulinuxhowto.blogspot.com/2006/06/root-access-with-sudo-and-gksudo.html Obligatory man page: http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/1/gksu.html Sux Homepage:
http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/sux-readme.shtml
And Gentoo’s doc page on running X as super user (god bless ‘em)
http://mirror.eacoss.org/documentation/gentoo/su-x.html

So it looks like Kdesu is another solution, although you can’t run console applications.

Ubuntu favors gksudo, and it works well. Mostly for running Synaptic with root privilege.
Homepage for the gksu library:
http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/
Ubuntu HowTo page:
http://ubuntulinuxhowto.blogspot.com/2006/06/root-access-with-sudo-and-gksudo.html
Obligatory man page:
http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/1/gksu.html

]]> By: Gordon http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-405 Gordon Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:46:25 +0000 http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/09/15/question-of-the-day-15-sept-2007/#comment-405 sux -- it's hard to find a useful webpage for it since people use it instead of "sucks", but that's the only thing I know of. sux — it’s hard to find a useful webpage for it since people use it instead of “sucks”, but that’s the only thing I know of.

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