On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 03:42:19PM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > IIRC, as the user, "xhost +root" > > Check: "man xhost" for more info That should work, but what I usually do is: xhost +localhost since I believe if you use "+root" you would be allowing the root user on any other system to connect to your X server as well. Do check that man page though. :-)