Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On 3 Jan 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote:
>
> > I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was
> > linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup
> > because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
>
> I put
>
> export X_AUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority
>
> in my .xsession - this environment variable is not cleared when you 'su'
> so you can use X programs as root without any problems. Maybe the default
> X startup scripts should do the above..
I had been using symlinks, but this is a much better way. Thanks!
Except, it doesn't seem to work...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>wc $X_AUTHORITY
23 31 2343 /home/joey/.Xauthority
I can read it, but:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>xterm
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Hmm.
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