On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm not able to run any GUI apps as root on my Debian (sid) system. I want > to try the latest Mozilla 0.9.1 net installer, but I get the following > message (I also see it when I try to run xcdroast): > > copland:/home/wilson/tmp/mozilla-installer# ./mozilla-installer > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 Are you logged in as you and then su-ing to root? If so, I think X thinks that someone else owns the display. When I've seen this, usually actually logging in a root has been a fix. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous