* deFreese, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030213 11:07]: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Haralambos Geortgilakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 1:30 AM > >To: Debian User Listie > >Subject: Synaptic & can't run in console with "su" or "xhost local:root" > > > >Hi Yall, > > > >having finally, after many months of trying, finally gotten my Radeon > >going with the ATI drivers, Synaptic is now not happy! > > > >Here is a cut & past of what is up-it used to work! > > > >Any ideas? > > > ><snip> > >Hellene:/home/haralambos# synaptic > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > >Xlib: No protocol specified > > > > > >Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > >Hellene:/home/haralambos# xhost local:root > >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > >Xlib: No protocol specified > > > >xhost: unable to open display ":0" > >Hellene:/home/haralambos# > ><snip> > > > > One thing you can try is when you su, do an su -p to preserve your > environment. Other than that, good luck, I could never get X apps to start > when I su'd either??
Use sudo or 'ssh -X root@localhost'. Forget about xhost. Really. Remove it from your vocabulary. Really. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you have to ask, "Whose business? Theirs, or yours?" --Tim O'Reilly
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