On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:20:26AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Me previous request was that when su'ing to root, i could not > execute some graphical programs, with a Gtk error, i was told > about xauthorities, and did some tweaking with some success; i > put the Xauthority line in .bashrc, and after doing su, i did the xauth > merge ~user/.Xauthority ... this worked when i did "su", but it did > not work with su -.
Don't use 'su -' in that situation, then - it sets up a fresh environment, and will therefore lose the X authority information you set up. (Personally, I 'export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority', and then use sudo to gain root privileges when I need them.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
