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krishnarao

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Registered: 2007-05-19

Posts: 33

Starting programs as root

When I use kdm as my login manager I am unable to run programs as root when logged in as a normal user. The output is:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
How can I get past this.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Starting programs as root

Use kdesu or gksu.

chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

Re: Starting programs as root

Put the following line in /etc/profile :

export XAUTHORITY="/home/<your_username_here>/.Xauthority"

You might need to restart Xorg.

Last edited by chilebiker (2007-05-23 00:33:07)

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