try xhost +local:
should solve some peoples errors, especialy the ones that get denied
after connecting to the net
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Steven wrote:
> I have 'xhost localhost' in my .xinitrc (maybe you'd need in in
> .xinitrc.switchdesk?), which is perhaps less secure, but works in all
> situations for me ...
>
> "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 07 Jul 1999, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
> > > "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > When running in init 5 everything is fine, but if I run X with 'startx' in init
> > > > 3, I get this message whenever I try to su to root and run a program:
> > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > > > kpackage: cannot connect to X server :0
> > > > What is the cause of this and how can it be changed? Or is it just expected
> > > > that one should be in init 5 if they wish to use X and run programs from
> > > > different users?
> > >
> > > put in your ~/.bashrc :
> > >
> > > [ -z $DISPLAY ] || {
> > > export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
> > > }
> > >
> > > or upgrade to the last etcskel from cooker(*), and copy the
> > > /etc/skel/.bashrc to your user directory.
> > >
> > > (*): http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/
> >
> > Thanks for the quick response, I put that in my ~/.bashrc and it worked...
> > partially. I can run most programs fine now but I still get an error if I try
> > to run linuxconf, same message except with 'Error message from remadmin:' in
> > front of each line:
> >
> > Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Error message from remadmin :Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to
>ServerError message from remadmin :
> > Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
> > remadmin (GUI frontend) exiting abnormaly
> >
> > It's not a big problem for me since I can run in init 5, but I thought I should
> > mention that that addition to ~/.bashrc did not fix the problem for every
> > program.
> >
> > -Tom
>
