[workaround] vi trying to connect to X
Hello!
When I "su" to root and start "vi", a bunch of these messages appear:
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Chris Howie explained:
vim tries to connect X for access to the X clipboard.
:help x11-selection
I think this is not a clever thing to do. Obviously, when I enter 'vi'
in a shell, I do not want to use the X11 GUI in any what. If I wanted
to, I'd enter 'gvim'.
This problem only appears when I "su" to root. To fix it, I created a
vim configuration file /root/.vimrc containing the following line:
set clipboard=exclude:.*
As described in :help options, this has the same effect as using the -X
argument on the command line (which fixes this problem, too).
Cheers
Daniel Kabs
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