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.

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