On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:35:46PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote > I'm not exactly sure when, but starting a month or so ago, vim has been > acting weird when > I run it as root. For one thing, there are messages > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
General rule... by default X apps cannot be run by any user other than the one who started the X session. This bites you when you launch X as regular user, and then "su -". Is vim considered an X app? Yes, if you've emerged vim with the X USE flag enabled. You have two options. 1) Get rid of the X-integration by going into /etc/portage/package.use and adding the line... app-editors/vim -X You'll have to re-emerge vim after making that change. This gets rid of X-integration for vim. 2) If you really really need the X-integration features, you can use the "xhost" command to enable all users on your machine to run X apps on your X session. E.g. my machine is 192.168.123.249 so I ran... xhost +192.168.123.249 ...to allow a 32-bit QEMU-KVM guest to run an X program on the 64-bit host's Xwindows session. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
