On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:59:12PM +0100, Brendon wrote:
> when opening an xterminal in kde2 and attempting to run make xconfig in
> /usr/src/kernel-source-x.y.z/ i get the following error:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0"
X clients authenticate themselves by using the .Xauthority file.
If the user running the X session su's to root his .Xauthority file is not
found in /root.
So as root you can cd to /root and link .Xauthority to the users
.Xauthority.Or you could set the XAUTHORITY env variable in the users
.bashrc so when the user su's to root , this variable will be passed to the
root shell.
Or you could set XAUTHORITY for each instance with:
XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority 'command'.
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