On 02/20/2011 02:15 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> |  Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keykdesu: cannot connect to X server :1.0
>>
>> Try to launch it as normal user, not root.
>>
> wow, and it asked for MY password, not ROOT password, and IT RAN!!!
>
> so I searched on trinity, and added the packages that I use from KDE!! 

ok, the REAL answer is!!!!! ( are you really ready???)

$ sux -
( enter root password)
# synaptic ( oh YES it works!!! )

$ man sux
      sux - wrapper around su which will transfer your X credentials

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Paul Cartwright