On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Bryan Walton wrote: > Greetings to the list, > I have a situation where I need to run one program as root, > through an x terminal, while my x windows session is being run as > non-root. When I open up an x terminal in this environment, become > superuser, and then execute the program, the program fails with the > following message: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > Any ideas?
IIRC, as the user, "xhost +root" Check: "man xhost" for more info
