Mauricio Tavares wrote: > Antony Gelberg wrote: > >> Mauricio Tavares wrote: >> >>> I am trying to access a debian 3.1 box through vnc and run x as >>> root while there. But, I am not having much luck. Here's what I am >>> doing: first I start vnc (using the tightvnc package): >> >> >> Don't run X as root. >> > How do you configure vmware then? I don't. But if I had an X app that needed root privileges, I'd use sudo or su from a terminal.