Dynamically set path for checkXauth

While doing this install I needed to SSH as root and as such the hardcoded path in checkXauth.sh failed

ls /home/pi/.Xauthority > /dev/null

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
sudo cp /home/pi/.Xauthority /root/

I’d suggest doing something like

ls $HOME/.Xauthority > /dev/null

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
sudo cp $HOME/pi/.Xauthority /root/`

instead so as many users may not do this as the default “pi” account.

Additionally, as I did this as root the “cp” was redundant so you may want to add a check for whether the user is root and if so, skip the “cp”.

[musicmancorley]

closing this as the current solution will provide a GUI as intended, regardless of warnings or redundancy. I will continue to explore additional options to differentiate between sudo and root user, but for the time being the code contained within this script should cooperate for everyone using sudo or root. I encourage anyone who wishes to improve this code or other sections to fork the repo! thx

[musicmancorley]

made some more updates to checkauth and also elaborated more on the functionality of the Briar menu 😃 It is definitely not exhaustive but I’ll be honest, I build documentation around user feedback. The more I get the better the documentation will be. Your input has been very helpful. Thx again