On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:20:55AM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: > Easy way to do this... > > put xhost localhost in your .xinitrc > or, you could type it each time before you go into root. A safer solution would be to do (as root): # export DISPLAY=:0.0 # export XAUTHORITY=/home/yourname/.Xauthority or (if ssh is installed) $ ssh -l root localhost -- Robert Vollmert rvollmert@gmx.net