If I open a terminal and su, I find I'm unable to open additional displays (e.g., su emacs & ).
If I change to a regular terminal and do xhost + then the emacs & as root works. I know the install script says it's shutting down remote access, but this is local access. I tried removing -nolisten from /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers (I'm using kdm), without effect. What's the right knob to tweak so that I can do the su; emacs & thing? A related question: Through the menu I can get System | Terminal (Super User Mode). The result comes up as root, and I can pop open additional displays. But it's not a very good root, because it still has my path as a regular user. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.
