On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 05.17, D-Man wrote: > solve the problem (it ususally does for me) then type something like > 'xhost +localhost' in a terminal as a regular user (ie the one who > started the xserver).
I don't find this a good solution, as you open up your X session to everyone else on your machine (might even be hackers). What I do is use 'su -p' instead of just su. It's not perfect tough since your $HOME, $LOGIN etc variables are still referring to your login account tough. Christian.