Hello Billy,
Friday, January 21, 2005, 4:47:31 PM, you wrote:
BH> did you run those commands from with-in the actual X (Graphical) BH> environment?
A terminal from within kde, first time as root second as me.
This is going to sound bizarre, but the "solution" (actually, a brute-force hack, afaik) is to use the command
xhost +
to disable acl before you su to root.
Then root will probably have to
export $DISPLAY=:0.0 (or whatever your display is)
Then root can connect to the X server to see the result of the commands.
Don't ask. I don't know. Under Gentoo, I think this was related to "fun times with PAM" (but I didn't know these commands then); no idea why I had to learn them under SuSE, but they work for oneshots like this.
IIrc, you can also remove some -tcp-nolisten switch from the X server startup command to achieve the same effect more permanently, but I've not felt like restarting my X server to test it.
Hope this helps, Holly
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