Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Geoff Brimhall wrote:
> When I log in to my debian system as non-root, I sometimes like to run a few X programs as root.
>
> So I startup xterm, do a 'su', and then attempt launch the X program.
>
> It always returns with an (paraphrased) error 'cannot connect to xserver - permission denied'.
>
> What is causing this ? Do I need to put in a DISPLAY=Machine_Name:0.0 into /etc/profile ?
>
> Any helps, thanks !
>
> Geoff Brimhall
I find that adding 'xhost +localhost' at the beggining of my
~/.xinitrc file gets rid of that problem. Also if you use 'su -' you will
have to type 'export DISPLAY=localhost:0'
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