Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[AnonymousCoward <quantum@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I can't seem to get subscribed to the kde list (never get confirm), so I'll 
ask here.

Running Suse8 with all current updates.  It has always been my practice to run 
as a user, and to invoke Konq & Konsole in superuser mode when I need them 
thus.

But with Suse8 I can no longer (as a user) launch X-based programs from these 
windows.  Logged in as root I can, but not when as a user and launching from 
these programs.  For instance in Konq I cannot right-click|OpenWith|Advanced 
Editor a file: "KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite'".  
And from the su konsole  # konqueror  and I get: 
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

konqueror: cannot connect to X server :0

In user konsole  $ kdesu konqueror  yields nothing.

This looks alot like a security issue.  Maybe the X server is intentionally 
disabled from accepting root commands from a user.  Or maybe it's one missing 
setup step.  Anyone know the answer?  
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information you need in in the others.
		-- Ray Simard
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