On Monday 21 June 2004 02.55, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I'm getting the following error when I try to launch programs as a normal user:
veronica@linux:~/thunderbird> ./thunderbird Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(thunderbird-bin:4886): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
This is my wife's account on the machine. I was setting up her environment and installing thunderbird and firefox. Neither would launch and running from the shell gave the above output. We belong to the same groups with the exception of wheel. I'm confused as to why she can't obtain XDM authorization.
Any clues?
Yeah, it's a problem in those two programs in that they seem to be trying to open two windows at the same time and doing it the wrong way. It only happens the first time you start it, the problem seems to be with the "import settings" dialog If you look at the threads of a few days ago, you'll see that someone came up with a solution, which was to turn off X authorisation the first time you run it. The next time you run it it will work even with authorisation on. So xhost +inet:localhost firefox exit firefox xhost -inet:localhost firefox will work