On Saturday, February 15, 2025 4:41 PM, I wrote >> I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two error >> messages: >> Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified >> Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > a different userid than the one running X. And on Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM, Charles Curley asked: > Are you running evince and X as the same user? Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log in. ________________________________________ From: Charles Curley <charlescur...@charlescurley.com> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved) External Email: Use Caution On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:41:27 +0000 "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleen...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > I installed Evince. Calling it brings up not even a GUI, just two > error messages: > Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified > Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display: Interesting. I run evince from the command line routinely. e.g.: evince meet.greet.2025.02.27.pdf & I get the process number, and that's all. Are you running evince and X as the same user? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
