On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:40:18PM -0500, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks Phil. That did it. Is there something I can fix that would allow me
> to su and run GUI apps?

Use 'ssh -l root'. (You'll need "PermitRootLogin yes" and 
"X11Forwarding yes" in your sshd_config).

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