Hey Mike, Is it an access problem or a no display set problem. Often if you type something like "su - root" it clobbers all the environment variables including the DISPLAY variable which means none of your X apps know where to connect. Maybe try a "su root" instead and check that the DISPLAY variable is set "set | grep DISPLAY".
Failing in that some systems are setup so with Xauth to limit access to certain users. With Xauth each user that wants to use the X server must have the appropriate "secret" (mit-magic-cookie). When you start X it may be creating a session key (terminology is probably a bit wrong) in ~/.Xauthority. I believe you may need to copy this to the home directory of any user wanting to use that Xserver. Hopefully it's just the environment variable thing because I'm not too familiar with this stuff. Jeff On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 09:46:17AM -0700, Michael Buckley wrote: > Hi all, > Can someone explain how to allow root to connect to the X server (IE - open gui > windows when su'ed to root) in Kde. > > I'm pretty sure that this is a KDE only restriction, as my gnome desktop allows me > to su to root and open gui screens. > > Thanks, > Michael > -- > ______________________________________________ > http://www.linuxmail.org/ > Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr > > Powered by Outblaze > -- Jeffrey Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://calgary.linux.ca 2956 42A8 ED8A 91F4 8CE0 A5DF 5293 8E10 6F08 7FB9 / 6F087FB9 / wwwkeys.pgp.net
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