On 2006-04-12 15:00:31 -0400, Luis Finotti wrote:
Zen Garden wrote:
user$ xhost + (press enter)
[snip]
This seems to be a security risk...
Yes.
sux seems to be a better idea... (Or so I heard.) :-)
Or define $XAUTHORITY.
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On Thursday 13 April 2006 06:07, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:49, Chris wrote:
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an
su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so
that: sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works,
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:05:23 +0200
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 13 April 2006 06:07, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:49, Chris wrote:
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an
su Terminal, but get an Xlib
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:05:23AM +0200, Chris wrote:
[...]
Thanks for your suggestion. I do mostly use vi in console as root, but I'm
not a programmer, and I've never figured out how to move or copy blocks of
text in vi. I took a posters advice an installed sux which allows me to use
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:06:45PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Try sudo instead, and better to use the simplest software possible when
running as root... there are plenty of console editors, I suggest one of
those as your editor while root.
There's also sudoedit(1), which invokes your editor
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su
Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo
kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal?
Thanks,
Chris
athlon:/home/stoffel# kwrite /etc/fstab
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote:
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su
Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo
kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal?
I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server.Here the sollution:user$ xhost + (press enter)And then:user$ su (without the -) (press enter)password: (type your root password)
root#Now you can launch windows from shell as root.Ciao!Matías.-On 4/12/06, Chris
Zen Garden wrote:
I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the
X server.
Here the sollution:
user$ xhost + (press enter)
[snip]
This seems to be a security risk... sux seems to be a better
idea... (Or so I heard.) :-)
HTH,
Luis
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Thanks, I'll look into sux
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:14, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote:
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an
su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:49, Chris wrote:
Hello,
Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su
Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that:
sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su
Terminal?
Try sudo
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:18, Raquel Rice wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 22:15:34 +0700
cep welly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Raquel Rice wrote:
I've been running 2 servers using Debian for about 6 months.
well, i assume you're already go in expert zone.
However, neither has had X
Hi,
apt-get install xserver-xfree86
If u already have xserver-xfree86 do this
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
apt-get install gnome
startx
That should get u working
probably the x-window-system package is not installed, by installing gnome all
over again it could fix ur problem
Regards,
Vijaya
Raquel Rice wrote:
I meant to say that when the machine is booted, one of the last
messages which is displayed on the screen is that xserver has been
started. I am then at the command line. I'd like to be able to
start Gnome, but don't know how to get there. Do I need to change
run-levels? Or
Raquel Rice wrote:
Thank you! [X is] running. Now the problem I'm having is that I get
only a corner if the screen ... what's there is too large to see all
of it. Change the screen size in the configuration?
It sounds like your screen resolution is too low, but that the virtual
screen size
Raquel Rice wrote:
I've been running 2 servers using Debian for about 6 months.
well, i assume you're already go in expert zone.
However, neither has had X installed. Today I'm setting up a
desktop, with X installed. X starts, but does not appear. How do I
go about bringing up Gnome?
I'm trying to set up a dual headed X session using a radeon device for one,
and a framebuffer device for another, and I'm not having any luck.
Is this even possible?
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neither liberty nor safety.
I'm trying to set up a KnopMYTH system such that I have a dual headed X
config. One of the ehads will be my ATI Radeon AGP card, and the other will
be the PVR-350's TV out. Presently I'm able to get either one of these to
display a X session, but not both at the same time, in dual heade mode.
I
stan wrote:
I'm trying to set up a KnopMYTH system such that I have a dual headed X
config. One of the ehads will be my ATI Radeon AGP card, and the other will
be the PVR-350's TV out. Presently I'm able to get either one of these to
display a X session, but not both at the same time, in dual
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 09:10, stan wrote:
Section Device
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
Option sw_cursor
Identifier Card0
Driver radeon
VendorName All
BoardName All
BusID 01:0.0
EndSection
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:55:54AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
stan wrote:
I'm trying to set up a KnopMYTH system such that I have a dual headed X
config. One of the ehads will be my ATI Radeon AGP card, and the other will
be the PVR-350's TV out. Presently I'm able to get either one of these to
On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 10:04:10AM -0700, Gary Sandine wrote:
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 09:10, stan wrote:
Section Device
### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
Option sw_cursor
Identifier Card0
Driver radeon
Egor Tur said:
Hi.
I want to setup Xnest with depth 8 under X with depth 24. When I try do
this I see messages Fatal server error:
Unable to find desired default visual.
Last I read the only way to get 8bit on top of X would be to run X in
32bit color. Though not all cards(or drivers) are
Hi.
I want to setup Xnest with depth 8 under X with depth 24. When I try do this I see
messages
Fatal server error:
Unable to find desired default visual.
Ok. I see man Xnest and I see that this must work.
xdpyinfo show me that I have
number of visuals:4
and next visual classes
TrueColor
I use sid and just apt-get dist-upgrade to Xfree 4.2.x My card is a
Quadro2 MXR, when using the older version of XFree 4.x , it randomly
crashes when switching screen. This problem hasn't happened eversince I
get 4.2.x ... it has been solid for me.
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:01:02 -0400
Justin
Hello,
I see that XFree 4.2.1 has made it into unstable a few weeks ago. I
am curious, has anyone tried to install it? How has that gone? Would you
say it's better to install from the unstable .debs or manually using the
XFree installer?
Thanks
J.
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[EMAIL
Me.I'm using it for some time and it's great.
The installation from .debs went very smoothly. I recommend using .debs
because of upgrades of packages.
Vlada
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 18:01, Justin F. Knotzke wrote:
Hello,
I see that XFree 4.2.1 has made it into unstable a few weeks ago. I
Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2.
I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my
XF86Config both times. Pretty annoying.
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This one time, at band camp, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka said:
Me.I'm using it for some time and it's great.
The
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 06:56:12PM +0200, Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka wrote:
Me.I'm using it for some time and it's great.
The installation from .debs went very smoothly. I recommend using .debs
because of upgrades of packages.
Was there a huge list of dependencies that do not match stable that
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2.
I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my
XF86Config both times. Pretty annoying.
You once told debconf to manage your XF86Config-4. Run
I see that XFree 4.2.1 has made it into unstable a few weeks ago. I
am curious, has anyone tried to install it? How has that gone? Would you
say it's better to install from the unstable .debs or manually using the
XFree installer?
Don't if it was the specific problem, but I had random,
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:03:12AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
Just one thing--back up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you install 4.2.
I've apt-gotten 2 revisions from unstable, and it overwrote my
XF86Config both times. Pretty
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 06:59:41AM +, Alexander Koch wrote:
b) with gdm it will start, but with no borders around the
windows, it just won't work out.
It seems that you didn't have a window manager running.
What is the right thing to do with gdm, do I need .xinitrc
or .xsession or
At last it turned out that deactivating the framebuffer setting the X-Window
loaded correctly (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86).
Once the X opened, I didn't the my flamant gnome as I expected, otherwise I saw
a blue screen with 4 buttons in te screen top left corner. Now my question is,
how
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 15:49:27 +0100
Marcel Figuerola Estrada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you should make a .xinitrc file (in your home directory) with the line:
gnome-session
then execute xinit (and xinit will execute all the commands
in .xinitrc).
horacio
At last it turned out that deactivating
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Joost Kooij did write:
The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections
at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver
manual page.
I don't think this holds for potato. I'm pretty certain I never explicity
re-enabled it on
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote:
[snip]
| This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the
| remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it
| hasn't seemed to make a difference.
X must be running on the local side,
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:40:16PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
| It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now,
| and hopefully somebody will come along to help.
|
| In the meanwhile use CTRL-A for Home and CTRL-E for End, if you aren't
| already :).
If it is a
Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard
Black wrote:
> For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal
and
> display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
> possibly, the changes to gdm...)
>
> I have tried many different things.
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write:
Joost Kooij wrote:
Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth.
But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man
page ie variants of
xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote:
The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections
at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver
manual page.
Okay thanks!
But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
possibly, the changes to gdm...)
I have tried many different things. Typical is something like:
[local machine]
xhost +
rlogin remote
[remote machine]
export
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote:
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
possibly, the changes to gdm...)
I have tried many different things. Typical is something like:
[local
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
possibly, the changes to gdm...)
I have tried many different things. Typical is something
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
| For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
| display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
| possibly, the changes to gdm...)
|
| I have tried many different things. Typical is something
Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
possibly, the changes to gdm...)
I have tried many different things.
D-Man wrote:
I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the
ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be
setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the
easiest (only?) way to display stuff back on a masq'd box.
How do you do this?
Richard Black wrote:
Joost Kooij wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and
display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with,
possibly, the changes to gdm...)
I have
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
|
| I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the
| ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be
| setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the
| easiest (only?)
Hello,
I have upgraded to woody with XF86-4 but I noticed that the Home and End
keys are not working properly in an X term anymore. Has anyone experienced
this too?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan
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(also called MS-DOS
D-Man wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote:
| D-Man wrote:
|
| I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the
| ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be
| setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the
It has to do with keymapping. I am feeling too lazy to look up my notes now,
and hopefully somebody will come along to help.
In the meanwhile use CTRL-A for Home and CTRL-E for End, if you aren't
already :).
-Andy
On Thursday July 19 2001 14:57, Sebastiaan wrote:
Hello,
I have upgraded to
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of
Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker
and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:51:02PM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote:
I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of
Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker
and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login to xdm
(remotely)
I just installed Debian on my system. Because I wanted a new version of
Window maker, I didn't install an X-window manager. I compiled Window maker
and all that good jazz. I ran all the setups, Now when I login to xdm
(remotely) I get nothing. when I login locally I get the desktop (whoopie)
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:53PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote:
The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
select the current URL and paste over it.
In X once
on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 08:50:53PM -0700, Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:59:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self decreed:
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything
Quoting Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
select the current URL and paste over it.
Others have addressed the
Steve Cooper wrote:
The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
select the current URL and paste over it.
In X once you select the text you want to replace
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:32:27PM +0100, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Steve Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
select
Personally this sounds like the best option. Duh, why didn't I think of that?
:-)
I do have another thought on this subject.
The fundamental issue with the solutions is that they require you to pause and
think about strategy, because each app has a different key to press or dialog to
invoke.
Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com):
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
hi,
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't know of any
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:59:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self decreed:
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't know
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
hi,
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't know of any way to disable it.
Under X, there's no separate keystroke
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com, 2001-05-07 09:04 +0200:
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
hi,
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
That *is* X behavior, by design. I don't
Lo, on Monday, May 7, Andre Berger did write:
* Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com, 2001-05-07 09:04 +0200:
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:50:52AM -0400, Sunny Dubey ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
hi,
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I
highlight
hi,
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
Thanks
Sunny
also sprach Sunny Dubey (on Sat, 05 May 2001 06:50:52AM -0400):
how do I get Xfree86 to not automatically copy everything that I highlight
with my cursor?
it does that by default, no?
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
\ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL
Olaf Meeuwissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for DefaultColorDepth and change it to
your liking.
Or, if you can't find DefaultColorDepth, it goes in the Screen section.
Hubert
The X server start at 8 bit depth by default. I can start it in 16 by
using the command startx -- -bpp 16. Is there a config file where I
can set the default to be 16? I tried adding the argument to Xserver,
but it did not accept it.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
The X server start at 8 bit depth by default. I can start it in 16 by
using the command startx -- -bpp 16. Is there a config file where I
can set the default to be 16? I tried adding the argument to Xserver,
but it did not accept it.
What should
Steve Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
The X server start at 8 bit depth by default. I can start it in 16 by
using the command startx -- -bpp 16. Is there a config file where I
can set the default to be 16? I tried adding the argument to
Edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config add the line: DefaultColorDepth 16 on the
right place (Screen section if I recall right).
Ron
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been
using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been
using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux
documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this
anywhere.
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:23:54AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been
using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux
in 03/08/00 08:23AM, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote:
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been
using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but
what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux
documentation, howtos, faqs,
You have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config.
From my XF86config
# The Colour SVGA server
Section Screen
Driver svga
# Use Device Generic VGA for Standard VGA 320x200x256
#Device Generic VGA
Device Voodoo3 (generic)
Monitor My Monitor
DefaultColorDepth 32 --
]
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 7:27 AM
To: Dennis Dai
Subject: MI/X question
Hi
How can I connect MI/X from Win95 to my linux box? In the FAQ MI/X
provided it says telnet to linux box and change the display
environment.
Right. The DISPLAY variable is used by X
Hi,
I learned (hard way) not to use root as my normal user.
but when I try to start X as ender(my user) I get this error
xinit: unexpected error 2.
How can I fix this?
now for the permisions question
in trying to fix the above X question I found that almost my entire /usr
directory
for the permisions question
in trying to fix the above X question I found that almost my entire /usr
directory is in the group root so I created a group called xprogs and
added ender to that group I then move the x server binarys to the xprogs
group but I still get the above error.
You don't have to do any
hi folks, I got xfee86 3.2 on my system and xdm running. How can I setup
x to run remote x-servers on other debian machines. there was a file
in/etc/X11/Xsession which i have set so that anybody can use the
xserver. What else do i need to do?
thanks in advance.
Paul
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grab the .openwin-init and other various files from the
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