RE: Annoying message

[Guðmundur Erlingsson <txakolin@bok.hi.is>]

Hi, and thanks. This works

>   >
>   >I sometimes get this message when I run programs in xterm as root:
>   >
>   >     Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>   >     Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server"
>   >
>   >
<snip>
> Well, it will have stopped _something_ running.
> 

Yeah, but I usually don't run much else than Vim as root, so it hasn't been
much of a problem:-)


You 
> need to point
> XAUTHORITY to the authority file of the user who started the 
> X session,
> like this:
> 
>  export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority
> 
> substituting the correct name for `user'.

Cool, that works fine. But I'm not sure into what conf-file I should put it
to automate the process. Is it .Xsession or something else?

Thanks again,

Guðmundur

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