[TriLUG] running X client as root in other accounts

[Dan Chen]

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:15:22AM -0400, uzoma nwosu wrote:
> I really hope this is a simple question that I'm just missing the answer somewhere.  I'm running Debian Woody on an AMD K6-2 350 box.  Everything works fine for the most part.  It's just that when I try to run a xclient as root from a term in an another user account I get this error:
> 
> # xcdroast 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Are you using `su -c', `su', or `sudo'?

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