On 3 Jan 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote: > I'm using vim very often after becoming super-user with su. If vim was > linked against X, I would always get an error message on startup > because root isn't authorized to connect to the X server.
I put export X_AUTHORITY=/home/jgg/.Xauthority in my .xsession - this environment variable is not cleared when you 'su' so you can use X programs as root without any problems. Maybe the default X startup scripts should do the above.. Jason
