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Steve Peck <steve@xmagic.co.uk> writes:

> Oh, the FreeBSD Handbook, on browsers, says something about running Mozilla as root!
> I tried this and GTK just complains about not being able to open the display.
> The only way to do this is to run X as root, then open Mozilla. Is this right?

My user which started X is called stoerte, so I would do a:
``export XAUTHORITY=/home/stoerte/.Xauthority''
after I 'su'ed to root and start mozilla from xterm. You could also
use 'su -m', or just sudo (security/sudo) which is very handy anyway.

cheers,
Frank