[TriLUG] running X client as root in other accounts

[Thunder Bear]

Open an xterm as the user who X is running under and run "xhost +"

That will fix it.

On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 11:15, 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
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> 
> Now I've just ignored this issue because it's not task critical. However, I now wish to fix this.  So I humbly ask for suggestions.
> 
> Uzoma
> 
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