Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-03-02 Thread kmself
on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error > doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I > open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I > a

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Oops, still learning to read. I have a related problem, but it's with Gnome. Here's the sequence: 1) login as a regular use via gdm 2) open a terminal and su 3) gtop & Leads to this error on the terminal: GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : N

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sure - check out man xhost. If (like me) you're a totally isolated host you can just do xhost + in a terminal window owned by the user running X; that will allow ANY host, ANYWHERE, to display om your machine. If you're connected to the net you might want to refine your xhost command to allow o

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-16 Thread Ross Boylan
Is there a way to give root (or anyone else) permission so this error doesn't come up? I login to a non-root account (gdm), but sometimes I open a terminal as root and want to run a graphical application. I always get the error message that kicked this thread off. The error doesn't seem to cause

Re: Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-15 Thread Tyler Braun
Are you trying to run it from a terminal that you're currently root in, while you're using X as a regular user? If so just stop being root and it should be ok. Otherwise, try: export display=:0.0 I *THINK* that will do the trick. On Thu Feb 15/2001 @ 10:02:P -0500, Radhika Sambamurti - 718-622-

Question re. AbiWord

2001-02-15 Thread Radhika Sambamurti - 718-622-8304
Hi, I recently downloaded and installed AbiWord for my Debian Potato 2.2r Linux. The exact error message that I got when i tried to run it was: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 If anybody c