On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:36:41AM +0100, Felipe Martínez Hermo wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > I have just upgraded to woody and I just can't connect to my X > server. > > User "felipe" is running X and I want to execute an application > on that X server. The usual procedure used to be: > > felipe@machine$ xhost + > > felipe@machine$ su somebody > Password: > > somebody@machine$ export DISPLAY=machine:0.0 > > somebody@machine$ xcalc & (for example) > > > This used to work in potato, but it does not in woody. Anybody > can tell me how can I fix this?
1.- do not shout in the subject.
2.- you might want to check the "-nolisten tcp" option under
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
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