I'll add one more way how to su and get those X apps working. Lets say I'm running X as user 'hessu' and just did 'su -' so I could run xemacs as root.
# export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~hessu/.Xauthority # xemacs & // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .