Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] ams, jackd & X as root? on debian

Jan, Steve, Thank you both for jogging[1] my memory on xauth, MIT-MAGIC-COOKIEs and environment variables. For running audio apps, I'm not sure I want the extra overhead of an ssh session. The simplest solution seems to be to su, rather than su -, to get to root. This way root inherits the XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY environment variables from my user session and can then run X client apps with no further config changes.[2] I can now start jackd as root and then start ams -j. Sorry I didn't think of this earlier. :-\ Adding /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig as Steve suggested allows ams to find libjack.so.0 (I really should have remembered that piece, too). Now that I have it running I'll go finish reading the ams documentation and figure out how to use it. :) Thank for your help, Eric Rz. [1] "Fezzick, jog his memory" <THUNK!> < ..crumple.. > "I'm sorry, Inigo. I didn't mean to jog him so hard." ... "Inigo?" [2] The Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO gives an explanation of what's going on and some slightly more complex (and perhaps more complete) solutions, if anyone is interested. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps.html 6. Telling the Server http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps-6.html 7. X Applications from Another User-id http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-X-Apps-7.html Paticularly section 7.2 "Client User Is Root"