Sure - check out man xhost. If (like me) you're a totally isolated host you can just do
xhost + in a terminal window owned by the user running X; that will allow ANY host, ANYWHERE, to display om your machine. If you're connected to the net you might want to refine your xhost command to allow only specific hosts/users. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Sociology Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error > doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I > open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I > always get the error message that kicked this thread off. > > The error doesn't seem to cause any bad effects, but it suggests > all is not well. > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:45:23PM -0500, Tyler Braun wrote: > > Are you trying to run it from a terminal that you're currently root in, > > while > > you're using X as a regular user? If so just stop being root and it should > > be > > ok. > > > > Otherwise, try: > > > > export display=:0.0 > > > > I *THINK* that will do the trick. > > > > On Thu Feb 15/2001 @ 10:02:P -0500, Radhika Sambamurti - 718-622-8304 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently downloaded and installed AbiWord for my Debian Potato 2.2r > > > Linux. > > > The exact error message that I got when i tried to run it was: > > > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > > > > > If anybody could help me out here... I would like to know what the above > > > error messages mean, and if possible which dependency conflict i have to > > > resolve. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Radhika > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > > Tyler Braun > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >