On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:45, Willy S wrote:
> hi,
> 
> How come root can not run a graphical program under other user
> session. Let say, I do 'su' and I try to launch gkrellm. Xterm will
> produce this message:
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> Everything fine if I run a console program under root. This problem
> only occurs if I run a program as a root under other people session.
> 

Use sudo (apt-get install sudo), it will take care of this for you...


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