Hi, On 12/20/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > > >Hi all, > >When opening emacs from terminal as "su" I'm getting this error: > > > >debian:/home/nipra# emacs > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > >Xlib: No protocol specified > > > >emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0. > >Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. > >Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit > >connections from your machine. > > > > > The problem is that X is "owned" by your normal user, and when you "su", > you no longer have "ownership" of X. > > Several ways around the problem. My personal fave is to use "sudo". > Another popular recommendation is to use "sux", both of which handle the > underlying issues of transferring host authentication.
Thanks. "sux" is working fine but while using "sudo" I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emacs Password: nipra is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. Regards Nikhil Prabhakar
