>>>>> "Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu> writes: Raul> Hmm.. I have a soft link pointing at .Xauthority in my home Raul> directory (from /root/.Xauthority), and I can run arbitrary Raul> root applications under X. A cleaner way to get the same result on a standalone machine is to put xhost +local: in "~you/.xsession".