Xlib error

Matt Cahill m-cahill-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 25 00:37:01 UTC 2005


On January 24, 2005 04:25 pm, John Vetterli wrote:

> Let me guess: from kdm, you log in as a regular user, then in an xterm,
> you su to root?  If so, the problem is that the info needed by X's
> authorization thingee is in the regular user's .Xauthority, not root's.
> Try try logging in as root, or running "xhost +" before su-ing to root.
>

  Your solution is as brief as my problem seemed complex.  Thanks very much - 
it worked.  I'm going to have to read-up on 'xhost' now.

  Thanks again,

  Matt

P.S.  Any Synaptic-users using version 0.56?  They've done a lot of work on 
it.


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