Re: [Sheflug] Problem

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 07:40:04PM +0100, Darrell Blake wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I've just downloaded Slackware Current and am having a little problem that is 
> annoying me. Whenever I su to root I can't run X programs, I get the 
> following mesage...
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> 
> If I log in as root everything runs fine though.

	Try typing (as normal user):
	xhost +127.0.0.1
	(or whatever IP address you want to enable root proggies to run
from). Should fixit
José
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