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Lola at 23:38, 14 October 2011
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echo $DISPLAY # you'll be needing this value 3 lines below<br />
sudo -i # or "su -" on older linuxes<br />
xauth merge ~''<YourUserNameHere>/.Xauthority'' # use your own username here with ~ in front<br />
export DISPLAY=''<ValueGatheredBefore>'' # use the value of user's DISPLAY from 3 lines before<br />
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Source: http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=linux:kernelbuilding<br />
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'''Real Life Sample:'''<br />
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''My machine is called DC266; my user is jslack and looks like that:'' <(^_^)> ''in a terminal'' :)<br />
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<(^_^)> ~ echo $DISPLAY<br />
''':0.0'''<br />
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<(^_^)> ~ sudo -i<br />
Password:<br />
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root@DC266:~# <br />
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root@DC266:~# xauth merge ~jslack/.Xauthority<br />
xauth: '''creating new '''authority file /root/.Xauthority<br />
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root@DC266:~# export DISPLAY=''':0.0'''<br />
root@DC266:~# echo $DISPLAY <br />
''':0.0'''<br />
[[Category:Linux]] [[Category:Howtos]]</div>
Lola