On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 05:36:45PM +0000, richard wrote: > X is running fine apart from one problem involving the > .Xauthentication file. If I login as user bob and startx everything is > fine. I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. Now, if > I su to root and try to run gvim I get the following error; > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > cannot open displayXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
The best way to fix this (in my opinion, at least) is to install ssh from one of the non-US mirrors. Then instead of using su to become root, you'd use "ssh -l root localhost"... ssh will take care of forwarding the X session for you. Otherwise you'll probably need to use xauth to explicitly allow your new userid to share the display.
