Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes: > Maybe HOME was still set to the user's home dir? If XAUTHORITY isn't > set Xlib looks in $HOME/.Xauthority, so that may work depending how you > get root. Ah, XAUTHORITY was set. Thank you. I didn't know about that. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>