Re: Emacs from Xterm
On Thursday 04 July 2002 04:21 pm, Bill Spears wrote:
> 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.
Don't apologize, but learn to duck.
emacs -d :0.0 /etc/lilo.conf
Glen
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