On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > screen scrape: > pi@raspberrypi:~/linuxcnc/configs/lathe $ su > Password: > root@raspberrypi:/home/pi/linuxcnc/configs/lathe# synaptic > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > ** (synaptic:2792): WARNING **: Could not open X display > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused > > (synaptic:2792): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 > > Next?
I had similar problems with su and I read in multiple places that using xhost (the work around suggested by Floris) is not recommended due to security reasons. Can you try su-to-root -X -c synaptic Enter the root password when it asks for one. regards raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
