http://luispa.com/en/tags/x/Recent content in X on Technical NotesHugo -- 0.148.0en-USSat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000http://luispa.com/en/posts/2017-02-11-x11-desde-root/Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000http://luispa.com/en/posts/2017-02-11-x11-desde-root/<img src="http://luispa.com/img/posts/logo-ssh-xorg.svg" alt="ssh xorg logo" width="150px" height="150px" style="float:left; padding-right:25px" /> <p>The goal is to <strong>make X11 (X-Window) applications work &ldquo;also&rdquo; from root</strong>. Making them work from a regular user is straightforward, but <strong>then switching to root with <code>su/sudo</code> and having X11 work is not allowed in Linux</strong>. The X11 connection <em>only</em> belongs to the user you logged in with via SSH.</p> <br clear="left"/>