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Re: Question re. AbiWord



on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan (RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org) wrote:
> Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error
> doesn't come up?  I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I
> open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application.  I
> always get the error message that kicked this thread off.

Don't run apps as root.

If you need to run a graphical admin utility (say, printtool), man xauth
and/or search for my prior posts on the subject here.

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