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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: gksu and server
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:07:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877egngaw9.fsf@web.de> (raw)

Hi,

I used to start a graphical Emacs for other user (Debian here btw) from
a running X session with gksu, an su frontend.  Since some days,
starting the Emacs server from such an Emacs instance fails with

  signal(file-error ("Creating directory" "Permission denied" "/run/user/1000/emacs"))
  files--ensure-directory("/run/user/1000/emacs")
  make-directory("/run/user/1000/emacs" t)
  server-ensure-safe-dir("/run/user/1000/emacs")
  server-start(nil inhibit-prompt)

User 1000 is the one owning the X session - i.e. the wrong one.

I dunno what makes the difference.  Does anyone know why this could be
happening?


Thanks,

Michael



             reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-05 17:07 Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2018-12-05 17:31 ` gksu and server tomas
2018-12-05 18:56   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-12-05 20:20     ` tomas
2018-12-05 17:47 ` Glenn Morris
2018-12-05 18:32   ` Michael Heerdegen

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