root user and any GUI

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> > "sudo xterm"  worked for my on Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> Works but all it does is open a new xterm as root.

It was just an example. And it appears it works.

If that works and is not what you want, I guess I misunderstand from all 
these emails.

If "xterm" will start as root, other X clients should too. If they don't 
provide the exact error message and other details -- and maybe we can 
help.

> Usually it doesn't on other systems I use.
> > 
> > Also try as root:
> > 
> > export XAUTHORITY=/home/yourloginuser/.Xauthority
> 
> 
> Didn't  help but I don't know what you meant by "set HOME again".

I am not sure why that doesn't work for you. I guess you and I are doing 
something different. Or maybe your .Xauthority does not exist? Or maybe 
you are on a different system (running clients on different system than 
the server itself) -- and you could use ssh -Y or xauth to work around 
that.

Anyways, "set HOME again" means if you want your HOME to be /root then you 
may need to export that.

> And then you can open X clients as root. (I already have that as my normal
> > user account on Ubuntu and sudo doesn't lose this environment variable.)
> > You may also need to set HOME again.