I have two possible solutions for the X problem. Lately I have been using only the ssh version:
1. Su and $XAUTHORITY environment variable ========================================== % echo $DISPLAY :0 % su - root <type root password> # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=~hessu/.Xauthority # xterm & 2. Using ssh not su =================== % ssh -l root localhost <type root password> # xterm & As you can see, ssh takes care of DISPLAY variable and setting the magic cookie for xauth based authorization. You can get ssh from the non-US debian mirrors. See README.non-US in any of the debian mirrors for more info about the non-US mirror site locations. I have also had problems with xman not seeing all the man pages. Here is a small wrapper script I made to get rid of the problem: #!/bin/sh MANPATH=`manpath` export MANPATH exec xman $* // 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] .
