The Road to Elysium

April 24, 2007

xsu

Filed under: Snippets — jorge @ 14:20 
#!/bin/sh
 
# Program to run X-programs as root
# (when you get the "**WARNING** cannot open display" message)
 
su - -c "exec env DISPLAY='$DISPLAY' 
XAUTHORITY='${XAUTHORITY-$HOME/.Xauthority}' 
"'"$SHELL"'" -c '$*'"

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