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... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]