Re: Problems setting xhosts...

2000-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
Ignacio Más Ivars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How do I add permanently the root user in my machine so that everything >I run in the root window has rights to access the display?!?! Don't use xhost - instead, either 'export XAUTHORITY=/home/youruser/.Xauthority' when you su to root, or make /root/

Problems setting xhosts...

2000-11-22 Thread Más
Hi, everybody. I am having a strange problem that I do not not how to solve. I usually run X as a normal user and I open one xterm as root (with su) to do the fancy stuff. >From the normal user, I do 'xhost localhost' and then run ethereal in the root window. Up to here, everything wo