[Za-pm] runnig perl-GTK apps as root on SuSE

DIRK KONRAD dirkvanderwalt at webmail.co.za
Tue May 4 04:06:36 CDT 2004


Hi,

I dont want to start a distro war, just need some quick
fix, if there may be one.

I've created a perl-GTK app that at some stage asks for the
root password and if OK it will start another app as
?root?.

This worked fine under all the mandrakes, but now I have to
make it work on Suse 9.0. What I get, when I try and run
the app as root, is the following:
-----------------------------
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Tue May  4 10:08:19 2004 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
display: :0.0 at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi/Gtk.pm
line 68.


If I open my xserver with ?xhost +? , I can run it, thus
pointing to a lock down issue.

Anyone with a more permanent remedy?
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