"Oliver Elphick" wrote: >Check out xauth. > >You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the >X server, so that it can share it. For example: > >$ su ># xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority
Only don't do this in your own home directory: I just found that this command rewrote my .Xauthority file and changed its permissions to root, so that no other X command would work. I had to su and change its ownership back to me. You could also use `xhost localhost' -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
