On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 13:45, Jonathan Rawle wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > Are you using the command: su - or just su? > > > > X apps should work just fine. They do here. > > I mean specifically when doing so over ssh (log in as a user then su). It > seemed to make no difference whether I used su or su- > > Admittedly, I haven't tried this recently. It used to be a problem on > earlier Fedora/RHL releases. I'll do some tests on FC4... > > I also found a script that provided a "sux" command that fixed it in some > cases. This is provided by some distros such as SUSE, and it claims to work > by transferring X "cookies". Ah! You need to make sure X11 forwarding is enabled. You can do that via the config files for ssh or by using -X or -Y options on ssh when you start the session. This will setup the DISPLAY variable as well so it gets redirected to your display. Give that a try.
