On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 08:40, Ryan Barr wrote: > I'm runing a combination of woody and some testing packages and > kde3.0.5a as my window manager... And am having some serious trouble > getting any X apps to run withoug using the uid that I am logged in > as... I have tried `xhost +localhost` - no dice... I am still getting > the following error: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified
Because localhost only covers TCP connections, but truly local connections go via UNIX sockets. Try xhost +local:<username> or xhost +local: -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
