Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the > following message: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > Any ideas? > Thanks, > Bryan >
I'm sure there's a better way (I've had this question myself), but a quick work-around is to start a second X session as root. Just Ctrl-Alt-F<1-6> and login as root, then start X with "startx -- :1". Then you can Ctrl-Alt-F<7-8> between the two sessions. (This is also a good way to give your kids an X session separate from yours.)
