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As thisuser, I go to shell and run $ su anotheruser. It asks for password and then switches the user. Then I run $ gedit anyfile. But now instead of opening gedit, it gives error:

No protocol specified
(gedit:388): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :20.0

How do I get this running?

EDIT:

Output of ls -l "$XAUTHORITY" when run as anotheruser

-rw------- 1 thisuser thisuser 260 Mar 31 22:35 /home/thisuser/.Xauthority
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For running GUI applications (e.g. gedit in your case) as another user you can use gksudo. I am not sure if it comes with default Ubuntu now but you can install:

 sudo apt-get install gksu

And then run like this:

 gksudo -u <user goes here> gedit <file goes here>
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