Q: easy su

[D. R. Evans]

On 28/08/06, LHartung <list at ioscan.de> wrote:

>
> this has nothing to do with su, you have to allow the root user to
> connect to your X-Server.
> The X-Server is running under your normal user.
>
>
> First you should allow localhost to connect to your x-server. Under your
> normal user use
>
> xhost localhost
>
> to allow connections.
>
> Now use su to switch to root user
> You should then set your DISPLAY variable:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
>
> if its not set.
>
> Now emacs should work.
>

Nope...

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[H:.beagle] xhost localhost
localhost being added to access control list
[H:.beagle] su
Password:
root at homebrew:/home/n7dr/.beagle# 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.

root at homebrew:/home/n7dr/.beagle# echo $DISPLAY
:0.0
root at homebrew:/home/n7dr/.beagle#

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