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I'm trying to open netbeans as a different user, but isn't working. I'm running a Kubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE.

And I tried the following: Open a terminal, type su - myotheruser, type the myotheruser password. Then tried to open netbeans: /opt/netbeans/7.3/bin/netbeans (netbeans is installed on /opt/netbeans/7.3).

I got the following:

Erro: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

I tried some commands like export DISPLAY=":0.0", xhost +, xhost +local:all and other commands related here and here. None worked.

Is important to me that myother user not be in the sudoers file.

If I end the session with mycurrentuser and logon with the myotheruser I can easily open netbeans.

I need open netbeans as myotheruser because I would like to work on a project that belongs to this user and just to it. If I changes permissions, looks like when I versionnig the project the user will loose the exclusivity.

So, how can I solve this? How can I open netbeans as a different user inside of another user display?

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You could always try the following:

ssh -Y otheruser@localhost "/opt/netbeans/7.3/bin/netbeans"

:)

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  • Thx a lot, works @tink.
    – GarouDan
    May 5, 2013 at 23:28
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I use gksu:

gksu -u myotheruser /opt/netbeans/7.3/bin/netbeans

Maybe try also kdesu.

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