From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 7 5: 5:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (smtp2.mbox.com.au [203.103.80.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E6537B407 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 05:05:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.i7mail.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0GKU0083444UHN@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:02:54 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GKU44U03.144 for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:02:54 +0800 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:02:54 +1000 From: BSD Freak Subject: Running XfFree86 4 as root To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en 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 Hiya all, I wonder if anyone can help me. I run apps such as mozilla etc as a normal user fine under XFree86-4 (built from the ports collection). However when I run a graphical application as root I get the following message and it aborts: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 Any help would be greatly appreciated.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- It is automatic log-in and notification. It is the all NEW mBeeper! http://www.mbox.com.au/mbeeper To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message