Speaking of logging in as root...

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

... what happened that causes this

    # allow root to run programs when another
    # user is in X
    if [ ! "$USER" = "root" ]; then
        export XAUTHORITY=/home/$USER/.Xauthority
    fi

to no longer work for me ??

I get the usual (same as I used to get before the above to root .bashrc)

    Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
    Xlib: No protocol specified

    kedit: cannot connect to X server :0.0

Regards
Hall