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Re: [Plug] no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
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Hmmm it keeps saying that Client is not authorized to connect to server.
How is root not authorized to connect to the local X server? And what
files do I look in and/or edit to make this work.
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
:Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:22:29 -0500
:From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
:
:On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 02:11:02PM -0700, Aaron Brown wrote:
:> Ok I know this has to do with the display settings, I just dont know where
:> to look for it. This isthe situation. When I am in X on my local
:> machine, and logged in as someone, I can use the X applications with no
:> problems. But when I su or change to another user in a TERM I get the
:> following error:
:>
:> Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
:> environment variable
:>
:> I dont know whereto look to fix this, nor do I have a clue what to set as
:> the display envvironment, I would like to still be able to run X programs
:> on remote hosts too..
:
:Just type xhost +localhost (or the ip of your computer)
:
:I'm not sure how to make that permanent. You can probably find out by
:reading the xhost manpage.
:
:
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