launching text editor as root

From: Sebastian Luque (spluque_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/14/05 

Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:36:35 GMT

When I'm in a shell (bash konsole in my case) and say 'emacs' as user, the
editor launches normally. However, if I do the same as root, I get:

,-----
| Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
| Xlib: No protocol specified
|
| emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
| Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
| Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
| connections from your machine.
`-----

Curiously, vim starts fine in these conditions. The DISPLAY variable is
the same as it is as user. I'd greatly appreciate any explanations.

Best, 

-- 
Sebastian P. Luque

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