+----- On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 12:25:04 -0100, serguei chabanov writes: | | I've never worked with multi-user systems before and I don't have yet | any feel for that kind of thing. If I'm in X (not as root) and open a | root shell, I cannot call any x apps from the root shell, it says | "couldn't connect to xserver". Am I doing something that goes against | the will of the linux gods? Or am I just not doing it well? Could | somebody please help me? When you start up an Xserver one of the options is to restrict those who can connect, basically every application needs to know a password or be run on a specified set of hosts. The password is usually stored in a file in your home account called .Xauthority, any program that can read your Xserver's password can connect to the server. As root you can read any local file but of course root's home directory isn't the same as your own and you need to set 2 variables to point out the information needed, DISPLAY should point to the desired server, usually :0 and XAUTHORITY which should be ~<you>/.Xauthority. This may not work if you have an nfs mounted home directory. Another approach is to use xhost but that can open up some serious security problems. A third approach is to use sudo. | Another question - I installed cyrillic fonts and can at least see | cyrillics in netscape. However when I print, all usual gibberish from | latin1 comes out. I thought printer gets the same bitmaps as the | terminal, at least when I'm not printing ascii. Nope, wrong window system I'm afraid. | I'm printing through | APS filter because I don't have a true postcript printer. Is there a way | to make it print charsets other then latin1, preferrably without editing | configuration for every charset change? You need to install Latin6 postscript fonts for ghostscript. It isn't something that I've done so I can't help you much. /Michael - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>