Aaron Brown on Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:09:42 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable


Well I do not actually start X, it is started at boot.  But I think that
when you log in that user sort of startes it as he logs in.  I have it set
up this way to make it easier on my Girlfriend to log in.

-- 
-Rune

Einsteins theory of Relativity mean that no matter what direction you go
in life you have a relative that has a theory...

In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the
same...

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:

:Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:48:49 -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 02:27:47PM -0700, Aaron Brown wrote:
:> 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.  
:> 
:
:Typing xhost +localhost (as the user who started X) should work.  I
:have this problem on my box.  I know that it is very strange to have
:root not be allowed to use X.  :)
:
:I'm sure there's a file to make this permanent, but I never found it.
:


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