Re: strange rvxt behaviour

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

   I just upgraded to hamm and am having a peculiar problem: when I am in
   X as a user and I su to root in an rxvt terminal window, I am no loger
   able to open any rxvt terminal as a user. I get an error saying that
   rxvt cannot connect to a pseudo tty. This does not happen with xterm
   and if I log out as root everything works fine again.

Root doesn't have rights to the X display because root doesn't own the
display, the user who started the session does.  A quick fix (but
insecure) is to type `xhost +localhost' before su'ing to root.  A
better fix is to use xauth--try `man xauth' for more info.


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