syanptic

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Feb 23 18:07:52 UTC 2008


jack wrote:
> Error copying '/home/jack/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/libgksu-zf78fX':
> Permission denied
>
> I'm logged into flux as a normal user, but a few days ago I logged into
> flux as root and was wondering if that may have had something to do
> with this.

Check the permissions of /home/jack/.Xauthority - probably it is readable 
by root only. Change it with

sudo chown jack:jack /home/jack/.Xauthority

and next time use gksu instead of sudo to run fluxbox as root.


Nils




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