Re: [Sheflug] Problem

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] clara.co.uk>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, [iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:43:06 +0100
> From: "[iso-8859-1] José Luis Gómez Dans" <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
> To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Problem
>
> 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

Is that the same as typing (again as normal user):

xhost +localhost

if you don't know the IP address?

Harvey
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