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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 21:50:00 +0200
From:      Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Opening root-windows on userX' display.
Message-ID:  <20010817194816.USLI23321.fepB.post.tele.dk@there>
In-Reply-To: <15229.28801.77231.325740@guru.mired.org>
References:  <15229.28801.77231.325740@guru.mired.org>

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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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