DISCLAIMER/Warning: Running anything as root is risky and you should not run any software as root when you don't have to. If you don't know what you're doing, or are on a system that needs to be secure, leave now.


If you have installed google-chrome, you might recently have gotten the message:
google-chrome cannot be run as root.

Very annoying.

Now here's the antidote:

First, switch off Xorg access control:
Code:
xhost +
Now start google chrome as normal user "anonymous"
Code:
sudo -i -u anonymous /opt/google/chrome/chrome
When done browsing, re-enable Xorg access control:
Code:
xhost -