[Bug 56681] Re: [Bug 56681] Can't display the screensaver

2006-08-24 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Thursday 17 August 2006 11:39, Damien Cassou wrote:
> When I try to get the graphics 'Pressing the show graphics' button, I
> always get this message:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> freeglut (screensaver): failed to open display ':0.0'

quoting from http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC:
> Graphics are supported, but they won't show up by default. The X display
> needs to be accessible to the BOINC graphics processes in order to see the
> interesting graphics for, e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it isn't by default.
> Your X display can be made accessible to all local UNIX socket connections,
> including the ones from BOINC, by running
>
> xhost +local:
>
> This is generally safe on single-user machines, though not ideal. It is a
> bad idea on multi-user machines, so don't do it there.

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[Bug 56681] Can't display the screensaver

2006-08-17 Thread Damien Cassou
Public bug reported:

When I try to get the graphics 'Pressing the show graphics' button, I
always get this message:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

freeglut (screensaver): failed to open display ':0.0'

** Affects: boinc (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Untriaged
 Status: Unconfirmed

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