Re: Can't open window as root

[Charles Galpin <cgalpin lighthouse-software com>]

this came up recently, and i asked if anyone knew how to set this up so
that the user who started X didn't have to do this manually every time.

Someone sugested sticking it in one of the X startup files (don't remember
where now), but it was a while till I rebooted/restarted X to find that it
did not indeed work.

Can anyone provide the answer? I get annoyed by this one :)

charles

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Steve Borho wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 02:41:47PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > In a terminal window, I've su'd to root, exported by DISPLAY variable, but
> > I still get the following error:
> > 
> > 	Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > 	Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> in another X term (running as the same user that started X), run
> xhost +localhost