Re: root and X problem

[Jason Kraftcheck <kraftche@cae.wisc.edu>]

Petr Simon wrote:
> Hi,
> when I am loged as user and I change to root in a konsole I can't open 
> any app getting this error:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
>
> What can I do about it?
> Thanks a lot
> Petr


Try this:

  xauth merge ~${LOGNAME}/.Xauthority

No overhead of ssh and X proxies
More secure than messing with xhost