Bret Hughes wrote:
> 
> Probably an X authorization problem.  The display is owned by the user logged
> into X and that user must grant authorization to orhers.  A quick test would be
> to open up the display to all users with:
> xhost +
> This should generate a message that security has been disabled.  Any user
> should now be able to open a window on the display.

That will make your display available to the entire network, possibly
including the Internet. Try this instead:

xhost +localhost

I put this in /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole so it will be in effect whenever
someone is logged in.

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