Do "xhost + localhost" before you "su". Till Riccardo Ferraro wrote: > If, as normal user I type "su" then root password and > try xsane or xscanimage I get: > > Xlib:connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > Gtk-WARNING ** cannot open display :: 0.0 >