How can I switch user in a shell and use the existing gnome display session?
- by z7sg
If I switch user in a terminal.
su bob
I can't open gedit because bob doesn't own the display.
If I execute
xhost +
before switching to bob I can open the display for some applications but not all. I get the following output when trying to execute gedit:
(crashreporter:4415): GnomeUI-WARNING
*: While connecting to session manager: None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported.
* GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.28.6/./gio/gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init:
assertion failed:
(connection-initialization_error ==
NULL)