Re: a MANPATH problem

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

"Oliver Elphick" wrote:
  >Check out xauth.  
  >
  >You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the
  >X server, so that it can share it.  For example:
  >
  >$ su
  ># xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority

Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this command
rewrote my .Xauthority file and changed its permissions to root, so that
no other X command would work.  I had to su and change its ownership back to
me.

You could also use `xhost localhost'

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Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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