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From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Xwindows Error While Using KDE 2.1
To: drewt@writeme.com (Drew Tomlinson)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <01061511253104.50316@milkmaker.lc.ca.gov> from "Drew Tomlinson" at Jun 15, 2001 11:25:31 AM
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	A few days ago there was a discussion about su not playing nicely with
KDE.  I forget the name of the thread.  You could try sudo, it may give
better results.

Ian

In the last episode, Drew Tomlinson stated...
> 
> I installed KDE 2.1.1 on my 4.3-STABLE machine.  I'm logged on via a 
> regular account and open a terminal window.  If I enter a command while 
> su'ed to root that would open up a window, I get the following error:
> 
> milkmaker# nmapfe
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>  
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> 
> However if I issue the same command not su'ed, then it works fine.  I have 
> experienced this with other commands as well such as konqueror.  Does 
> anybody have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
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