On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Joseph Pingenot wrote:
> >From Norbert Preining on Friday, 08 November, 2002: > >I think that vim-gtk tries to open a window, recognizes that this > >doesn't work (authorization) and starts normal text mode vi. > > Probably the easiest way to do this is, instead of using su/sudo, run > ssh -X localhost. It'll tunnel your X apps back over the tunnel. Not > as efficient, but it'll solve permissions problems. Or, you > can have root snag your user .Xauthority file to steal the user cookies. > Then you can just set display:0.0. > Another possibility is: su -c vim-gtk you can also use xhost +username for allowing users to connect to our Xserver. But this does not work for me on Debian. Ivan