Emacs from Xterm

[Bill Spears <bspears@easystreet.com>]

I've finally gotten Debian (and KDE) up and was about to burn a CD when  I 
discovered that I didn't have cdrecord installed.  apt-get worked 
beautifully. But then I found I didn't have ide-scsi installed.  So I tried 
emacs /etc/lilo.conf from an xterm and got error: emacs couldn't connect to 
Xserver and some suggestions about xhost, which didn't work. So I used vi and 
it worked. But I like to use emacs (it does work from the menus), and I need 
to use it as root sometimes (anybody knowing how to use a user started Emacs 
process as root) please jump in). I figured this is an X security problem, 
but still don't know what to do. 

BTW, I'm sure this is a common problem and I'm sorry to bother the list with 
it, but I couldn't find how to search the archives.  So if someone would like 
to tell me some better research methods, please fire away.

Thanks.


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