Cannot connect to X server

From: Jim Bowering (iambat_at_otvcablelandot.net)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:59:34 -0700

Lately (and periodically) I've run into the problem where I can't run X progs
as root. I have KDE on Debian unstable. For instance, I can't run Kedit as
root, getting this error message: kedit: cannot connect to X server :0.0

xhost +localhost doesn't fix the problem. If I do su -m it does fix it. I
would like to be able to run X apps as root, with root's environment,
automatically 

-- 
LinW (Linux is not Windows)

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