Re: Strange xauth problem

Jafaruddin Lie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robert Moonen wrote:

>It looks like you're trying to access an X display statred by jafar as
>root, if you log out of X and log back in as root, then it should work
>OK. but this is a dangerous workaround.
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Yes, I was. The point is, on my laptop the command works just fine.
On my PC, it doesn't. I am at lost trying to figure out what's wrong.
Yes there are other ways around it, I can run su - on terminal, start a 
shell session as root and run the program that way, it is more like it 
doesn't work and I want to know what's wrong so I can fix it :)
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