Hi Mike; On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 13:13 -0400, William Case wrote: > Thanks Mike; > > I see what you are talking about. I'll try it this evening and let you > know. > I tried your suggestion. My /home/user1/.Xauthority file only opens in emacs and its empty. .Xauthority doesn't currently exit in user2. Man has no explantion of .Xauthority. I am going to keep your post and try again to solve this problem in a couuple of weeks. I have too much on my plate right now. > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 12:49 -0400, Mike Denhoff wrote: > > > I wonder if this might work. Set up evolution only for user1. When > > you are logged on as user2, start an xterm and su to user1 and from > > that start evolution as user1. This will take some xauth magic to get > > evolution running as user1 to display in X running as user2. > > > > I don't understand xauth properly, but I just tried this. I know it's > > not really the proper way, but ... > > > > As user1, su to root, > > # cp /home/user1/.Xauthority /home/user2/.Xauthority > > # chown user2.users /home/user2/.Xauthority > > ( make sure the permissions of .Xauthority are correct. ) > > logout, login as user2 and start up X using > > $ startx > > open an xterm and do > > $ su - user1 > > password > > $ export DISPLAY=:0.0 > > $ evolution & > > > > I just use startx - I'm a simple minded Slackware user. > > I don't know what gdmflexiserver will do, but if it doesn't overwrite > > .Xauthority then the above might work. > > > > Mike > > mike DOT denhoff AT nrc DOT ca > > It seems to me that two roles | two environments | two users should be > relatively easy and a fairly common request ... but its not. Regards Bill