ubuntu and glxgears

[Man-wai Chang]

> You were logged into Gnome as root?  Or you logged in as another user and
> then changed to root?

I logged in as root.

the $DISPLAY should be set by GNOME. But is the xterm's $DISPLAY 
different from the one being used by GNOME? Note the xterm was spawned 
by GNOME.

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   .~.    http://changmw.homeip.net
  / v \   Linux 2.6.13
/( _ )\ (Ubuntu)  21:36:01 up 5 days 3:09
   ^ ^    load average: 1.02 1.05 1.05