Re: X problem as root

[Marco Calviani <mirtux@studenti.fisica.unifi.it>]

Hi Pavlos,
 thanks for your help, i've inserted the export command inside the 
.bashrc file.

Thanks again,
MC

Pavlos Parissis wrote:

> Hello,
> You have to export the variable XAUTHORITY before invoke su
> export XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority
> su
>
> do not use the '-' in su command  because this invoke the shell which read the
> .profile files and over write you XAUTHORITY variable.
> You will find a sample .bash_profile under /usr/share/docs/bash........
> I hope it helped
> Pavlos
>
> Αρχικό μήνυμα από  Marco Calviani <mirtux@studenti.fisica.unifi.it>:
>
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> > Hi everybody,
> >  i've got a problem whenever i become root and try to open a window in 
> > my user X session:
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > user@local:~$ su
> > root@local:~$ eog
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> >
> >
> > Does anybody can diagnose the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > MC
> >
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