On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 12:15 -0400, taharka wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 21:02 -0700, Dennis Castanos wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what's up with this message and how to fix it? > > Thanks, Dennis > > (gedit:2743): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: > > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols > > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. > > The only time I get that exact same error, is by running gedit from the > cli after an su to root. Doesn't seem to effect anything, as gedit still > functions :-) Should only happen when you su - to root. And then - just first type: xhost +root and even su - should work. -=- That being said - I do not recommend running gedit as root. Learn how to use vi - there are plenty of resources on the web for that. vi is not hard to use, and worth learning in the long run.