From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 17 12:29: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E390437B407 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 90434 invoked by uid 100); 17 Aug 2001 19:29:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15229.28801.77231.325740@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:29:05 -0500 To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display. In-Reply-To: <126043900@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bjarne Wichmann Petersen types: > On Friday 17 August 2001 17:42, Daniel Frazier wrote: > > ummm, open up an xterm and su to root? > And then what? Still doesn't allow me to open eg. kconfig: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-1484'Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Make sure the environment XAUTHORITY variable is set when you're working as root. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message