Bug 99490

Summary:	xhost +local: should work
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	soloturn
Component:	XWayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	bugseforuns
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description soloturn 2017-01-22 08:17:48 UTC

some programs require a different user to run, e.g. gparted wants to run as root. to allow, 

xhost +local:

should work. it says "unable to open DISPLAY :1". i am not sure if this is related to bug99489, i recall this working, but am not sure any more.

this is on arch linux, versions:
weston 1.12.0-2
wayland 1.12.0-1
gnome-shell 3.22.2+18+gdf7727a-1
xorg-server 1.19.1-1

Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan 2017-01-23 08:04:55 UTC

xhost is an X11 client, it needs to conenct to the Xserver itself to change the acces control on the xserver.

What it tells you with "unable to open DISPLAY :1" is that it cannot connect to the X server.

 - Is your Xserver running on display :1 ?
 - Is the user yyou execute "xhost" is allowed to conenc tto the Xserver :1?
   (for example, if you run "xhost +local:" as root, it won;t work, because root is not allowed to conenct to the running X server of another user).

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2018-06-04 07:31:50 UTC

Closing this bug as it should work fine; please reopen if you are still having issues.

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