[ILUG] XEmacs....acting up a bit....

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:04:45PM -0000, Michael Treacy wrote:
> When logged in as a bog-standard user, I can run XEmacs no problem. However, 
> when I do SU to become root, and try to run XEmacs, I get the following:

either copy your .Xauthority file to root's home dir, or type

    xhost +

at a prompt.

> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Initialization error: X server not responding : ":0.0"

your .Xauthority contains the cookie you need to connect to the
x server.

kevin

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