screensaver not working in gnome/enlightenment

[Dave Bresson <david.bresson@yale.edu>]

Hi, i'm running off a new install of Potato, with GNOME and E all happily
working.  However, their is one problem.  The various utilities in all the
GNOME menus for screensavers don't work.  In other words, i can't get the
screensaver to kick in at all after it's initial idle time (or for that
matter, if i simply tell it to lock immediately).  I try running
`xscreensaver &` and all i get is an error message:


Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0
xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/shadow (0/42)
xscreensaver: running as nobody/nogroup (65534/65534)


Also, it's very important to mention that this *only* happens as root,
other regular accounts work fine.  Anyway, i would just like to find a
solution to have a screensaver for root.


Thanks,



dave