[QCLUG] Re: Kid timer

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:16:27AM -0500, Leif Theden wrote:
> could you just copy the user's .Xauthority to root, then run zenity?

You would have to know which user was currently logged in, which is trickier
to determine at runtime than just grabbing the display manager's
.Xauthority.

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