On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:28:44AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:34:33PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > $ /usr/bin/X11/xhost + > > Yes, I had done that. > > > Then as root in a terminal: > > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 <your user name here> > > This was the missing piece! I was missing the user name. > > Nice that this problem is solved. But I do not understand why so many > use "xhost" in a insecure way instead of correctly setting DISPLAY and
It turns out that xhost + (as the regular user) wasn't necessary. I had actually reset that and it still worked when I tried the DISPLAY line above. >... A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
