Re: [PLUG] X server permissions as a different user...

[John Lavin <jlavin@mercury.ccil.org>]

Never mind.  Further excerpts:

<Cobwa> What's a "set | grep DISP" say?
<Cobwa> (As root, the user trying to run xcdroast.)
<jlavin> first from ps:
  <jlavin> -auth /var/lib/kdm/authfiles/A:0-cNc2Hz
  <jlavin> ahh - it says nothing
  <Cobwa> Hmm, so something isn't exporting DISPLAY.
  <Cobwa> You ought to be able to run xcdroast with a param,
  something like :0 or -display :0
  <Cobwa> Or just "export DISPLAY=:0" in that session.
  <Cobwa> Should work then.
  <jlavin> xcdroast --display :0
  <jlavin> worked
  <Cobwa> :)
  <Cobwa> The clue was in the line:
  <Cobwa> <jlavin> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
  <Cobwa> Here I see:
  <Cobwa> xhost:  unable to open display ":0.0"

Thanks Cobwa!!

-john
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:04:34PM -0400, John Lavin wrote:
> Pulling a conversation off of IRC and on the list.  I seem to have had a
> a xserver permissions error.  I think I might have moved to another
> one...
> 
> I had an error:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> 
> No longer have that I have the following:
> 
> -- snip --
> <jlavin> checking out the xhost manpage now...
> <jlavin> hmmm
> <jlavin> xhost root@  root@myhost
> <jlavin> xauth add myhost:0 SUN-DES-1 root@myhost
> <jlavin> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> <jlavin> perhaps I'm doing something wront
> <jlavin> s/wront/wrong
> <switchcat> try xhost + first by itself, no
> names to see if that works
> <switchcat> als you may need to do this as thew
> user you're logged in as, not as su
> <switchcat> als=also
> <jlavin> hmm:  same thing:
> <jlavin> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> <jlavin> no other errors btw
> 
> Any ideas?
> -john
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