Jeff Abrahamson on Thu, 2 Aug 2001 13:00:07 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Connection to x-server refused


On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:01:21PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> At first, I thought that you had hit upon the solution.  Perhaps something 
> I was launching from the KDE Panel was preventing the panel from working 
> until I quit that app.  Then, I remembered that this happens when I launch 
> apps from the terminal, also.  In fact, I only get the error feedback when 
> I attempt to launch from the terminal.  When I try to launch from the 
> panel, I get no error message.  Simply, nothing apparent happens.

The errors are probably going to tty0 or console. Try ctrll-alt-F1 to
switch to the first virtual terminal. Depends on your installation, of
course.

-Jeff

ps: This has happened to me once or twice. It's very odd to see. Those
running xterms become so precious...


> Thanks to all for continuing to give me your ideas.
> 
> Art
> 
> At 06:37 AM 8/2/2001 -0400, LeRoy D. Cressy wrote:
> >This is just a thought, but are you running anything in the fore ground
> >besides the window manager?  For instance if one of the menus is
> >configured to run a specific app without the & at the end then you
> >cannot go back to the window manager.  Xauth seems to be OK if you can
> >kppp as root at the start of the session.
> 
> 
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 Jeff

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