[PD] Trouble Running PD as root

[Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999]

The running PD part is working, the problem is that the "root" user does 
not have access to the display owned by another user. either you can log 
into X using root or you can do this:

su 
cp ~[your normal username here]/.Xauthority ~
export DISPLAY=':0'

/usr/local/bin/pd -rt blah blah

Ben

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, matt alford wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to run pd test 26 as root on SuSE 8.0.  When I did the
> 'make install' as root it didn't add pd to roots path, so I am running
> the binary in /usr/local/bin  When I do that I get the following:
> 
> reading startup file: /root/.pdrc
> priority 98 scheduling enabled.
> memory locking enabled.
> priority 96 scheduling enabled.
> memory locking enabled.
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
> watchdog: signaling pd...
> watchdog: signaling pd...
> watchdog: signaling pd...
> watchdog: signaling pd...
> 
> Is there a permissions problem? or am I running the wrong binary? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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B. Bogart
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