Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MPS> In a shell where you're logged in as yourself, type MPS> MPS> xhost +localhost MPS> MPS> or MPS> MPS> xhost + if you want to give global access.
You probably don't want to do this, unless you're comfortable with the concept of any user on {your machine,the Internet} potentially spying on and taking over your X display. I suspect this isn't what you really want to do, though. Various more reasonable solutions to this problem have been tossed around in the past; see the list archives for details. (IMHO, it's perfectly reasonable to not try to run graphical programs as root in any case. But that's me.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell