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From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject: Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:50:00 +0200
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On Friday 17 August 2001 21:29, Mike Meyer wrote:

> Make sure the environment XAUTHORITY variable is set when you're
> working as root.

Set it where? If I make a 'export XAUTHORITY=yes|1 ; kcontrol' from the 
commandprompt (tried from both root and joeuser before running 'su') and 
still get the error.

Bjarne

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