Bill Barnes wrote: > > Hello List: > > Just ran a dist-upgrade from woody, kde2, helixcode. > Now gedit opens a display as non-root user, but as root, says > Xlib: connection :0.0 refused by server > Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server > > gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > > there is an environment variable \ 'DISPLAY=:0' for user and root. > > Had no trouble with this prior to upgrade. > > Can you help? > > Thanks, > Bill > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
is the x display owned by a user other that root? e.g. login to gdm/xdm as jdoe, open an xterm and su to root. Now you have a root shell with the display owned by jdoe. if you want to let root use your display then add him in you xauth permissions. HTH, Jim