Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Josephine wrote:

> On Monday 02 August 2004 09:49, Mark Parker wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi list
> > When I try to install Firefox on my SuSE 9.1 Pro machine, I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> >
> > (firefox-bin:4112): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> >
> > I have installed both gtk and gtk2 and I get this error when I run the
> > setup as a normal user and as root with the latest builds and with the
> > 0.91 release. What can I do?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Mark
> >    
>
>
> run the installation as user, not logged in as root at the console, but as 
> user on X.
>
> Josephine
>
>  
Or "xhost +root" to give root access to the X server, "su -X" etc.
Regards
Sid.

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