Hi all,
Just installed Slack11after a short flirt with debian, it is really great. I have a small problem though: on 10.2 I was able to run X applications as root entering 'xhost +' as user beforehand.. Now there is no xhost anymore. I use a Java program with a graphical installer, thus I need this. Any tips? Thanks in advance.

Can't answer why there is no "xhost". (Are you sure you've isntalled X? - it should be in /usr/bin/X11 if so but I don't know your distro.)

Assuming you do have X installed you can use an ssh tunnel and bypass the need (and security downside) of using "xhost +".

Just do "ssh -X" when you open the connection. This enables X11 forwarding so it uses your ssh port instead of the 6000 port range to do the X window.

Make sure your /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.profile, $HOME/.bash_profile etc... don't have anything that sets the DISPLAY variable. The X11 tunnel will set DISPLAY for you and the one it uses is for the tunnel so isn't the standard "MYIP:0.0".

Silly me. Of course it was in /usr/bin/X11, which wasn't on my path. Thanks.