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Easily run X11 apps that require root
Authored by: glusk on Feb 12, '04 12:30:09PM
Here's one:

tell application "X11" to activate

set results to do shell script "cd ~; DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY; PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin;  export PATH ; sudo /sw/bin/ethereal > /dev/null 2>&1 &" with administrator privileges


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