christophe barbé wrote: > I use a script written by Francois Gouget called 'sux' which does as > 'su' but for free take care of the X authentification stuff. So do I, but I call mine ~joey/.xinitrc # This makes X work when I su to root. if [ -z "$XAUTHORITY" ]; then XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority export XAUTHORITY fi A utility seems rather pointless. -- see shy jo