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Grant X server access to secondary user

These steps allows a secondary local user called <user> to use the local X server running on the machine that was launched by <main_user>. This will allow running graphical applications on a linux system (using X as the display server) from another user than the normal user.

User Values

  • <user>: user to be granted access
  • <main_user>: user that owns the X Server

Procedure

<main_user>: xhost -
<main_user>: xhost +si:localuser:<user>

Sources

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