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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by jorams on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:49AM (#38430771)
I did try it. It even works from a different VT directly logged in as root if I also specify DISPLAY:

    sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox --new-window
If I now switch back to the VT running my desktop, a new Firefox window has opened.

Maybe your root terminal has other environment variables set that break it? A different DBUS session maybe?

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by JonathanBeuys on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:09AM (#38430904)
Oh wow, you were right! This solves it:

    sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 firefox
Sorry for messing it up the first time I tried!

Man, you solved it!!

Thanks a 1000 times!

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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by jorams on Monday November 27, 2023 @06:40AM (#38431127)
No problem! Glad it works now.
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