[tde-users] Re: trinity doesn't work

said Gene Heskett:

| Re the sudo -E: | from wheezy thru jessie and stretch its been required since X would not | allow root to use it without it, but I just went to a buster machine and | I'll be dipped, it worked without the -E on a buster/xfce4 install.

What happens if you do

$ xhost + localhost

before you execute your sudo command? here it gives root access to x in a user terminal, so you can type your command in the terminal and get a nice little session running x as root. -- dep

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