Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 16:10:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ian P. Thomas" <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: drewt@writeme.com (Drew Tomlinson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Xwindows Error While Using KDE 2.1 Message-ID: <200106152010.QAA37743@scraemondaemon.my.domain> 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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