Re: X problem as root

[Pavlos Parissis <p_pavlos@freemail.gr>]

Hello,
You have to export the variable XAUTHORITY before invoke su
export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
su

do not use the '-' in su command  because this invoke the shell which read the
.profile files and over write you XAUTHORITY variable.
You will find a sample .bash_profile under /usr/share/docs/bash........
I hope it helped
Pavlos

Αρχικό μήνυμα από  Marco Calviani <mirtux@studenti.fisica.unifi.it>:

> Hi everybody,
>   i've got a problem whenever i become root and try to open a window in 
> my user X session:
> 
> for example:
> 
> user@local:~$ su
> root@local:~$ eog
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> 
> Does anybody can diagnose the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> MC
> 
> 
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