Running GUI programs as other users
I am trying to run a GUI based program from my current user account as another user. The issue I am having is that when running this program the terminal throws an error at me:
"Warning: Unable to open display ':0.0'. You will not be able to display graphics on the screen."
The program then proceeds to run in comandline form with no option to display any form of ghraphic. I have tried using "su" to log in as the user and "sudo -u USERNAME program", but both give the result mentioned above. I have also tried exporting the display with "export DISPLAY=
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