On Friday 09 May 2003 9:50 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Ken Schneider wrote:
The proper procedure is:
as logged in user issue xhost +localhost su export DISPLAY=localhost:0
Aha - that's sorted it for me, at least. Will I have to do this each time I log in / reboot? If so, can I put these commands into an automatically run file somewhere?
John
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All you really have to do is to issue: xhost + one time during a boot session as a normal user. And you're good to go. I have placed this in the .bashrc file for the user I normally log in as. (and now people are going to hound me that it is a security breach) -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/09/03 11:13 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?"