I&#39;m not exactly sure when, but starting a month or so ago, vim has been acting weird when<br>I run it as root.  For one thing, there are messages <br>    Xlib: connection to &quot;:0.0&quot; refused by server<br clear="all">
on the console.  I presume this is an X authority thing, but I&#39;m not sure why it became an<br>issue when it wasn&#39;t before, and I&#39;ve completely forgotten what to do about it.  I&#39;m generally<br>running a gnome-terminal 2.26.3.1 under KDE on plain Gento.<br>
<br>It&#39;s weird, I know, but I&#39;ve been doing this for ages. Moreover, in spite of weirdness, the editing session works.<br><br>Except that there are messages <br>   Xlib: No protocol specified<br>overlaid on the document scattered more or less randomly.  They can be cleaned off by<br>
control-L.<br><br>This is barely workable, and leaves me with a WTF sort of feeling.<br>Fortunately, I don&#39;t do a whole lot of editing as root, but there&#39;s always something...<br><br>Any clues out there?<br><br>-- <br>
Kevin O&#39;Gorman, PhD<br><br>