On Thursday 18 October 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: > I have no problem starting xapps in Konsole, while su'ed to root on my > Fedora, and Debian installs, but am having a problem with Archlinux. > > Apparently the default behaviour of Konsole in Archlinux is to deny the > starting of xapps, but I can't see where this default setting is to be > found > > Kwrite for example will open, if started as user in Konsole, but not when > su'ed to root. this is the output when trying to open Kwrite as root. > > Xlib: connection to ":0 . 0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified The X server is rejecting connectings from a user which is not the one currently running the X server, a security option since any X11 program which is allowed to connect can see all input. You can allow such connections explicitly by doing this in a terminal window currently open on the X server, e.g. in Konsole right before you "su" % xhost +local:root Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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