Re: [gentoo-dev] GnomeUI-WARNING

[Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@gentoo.org>]

William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> writes:

> xhost +localhost
> su -
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> 
> Using "su -", requires a display set.  Where does one put the xhost and
> export in a generic sence?  I have a single user machine and often use a
> number of x displays - how could I set up to do the above automaticly,
> no matter which X dispaly I am on?

I'm not a real expert on vim, but perhaps it has a feature where you
can edit a file as root from a vim session running as a normal without
explicitly su-ing anywhere. Kinda like Emacs's Tramp stuff;

	/[sm/root@localhost]/etc/make.conf

This is much more convenient than switching users/using a local ssh
connection etc. or playing with xhost authentication.

-- 
Matthew Kennedy
Gentoo Linux Developer