I tend to over simplify sometimes. I reduce things till I find the simplest combination then I can Google it do find an answer. I went to far this time. I eliminated my program by using xeyes, that was ok. It meant my program was not the creator of this problem. I logged two people on the same computer by using the KDE "SWITCH USER", this was my problem/bug. It meant I did not need to use two computers. PROBLEM! SuSE does not properly support multiple user X using the Switch User function. When I logged on from a different computer xdmp or VNC then "xeyes -display unix:1.0" it WORKED! So Sorry for tying up the bandwidth of this news list. I will make one more post to clarify this so maybe the appropriate person can queue this problem to be fixed in the future. Tim Ertl 413-442-9000 x6211 -----Original Message----- From: Tim Ertl [mailto:tim@lmrgroup.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 5:25 PM To: 'John Andersen' Cc: 'SUSE Linux' Subject: RE: [opensuse] xeyes -display unix:1.0 / Can't open display Your petty much on it. I have some embedded devices that I want to be able to pop an xwindow on SuSE linux consoles. A simple explanation is: User henry on computer ows1 wants to display the xeyes program on the computer tom has called ows22 but tom is logged on as the second user so he gets :1.0. Henry would do from his computer(ows1): xeyes -display ows22:1.0 It does NOT work for SuSE Linux 11.0. It works for RedHat, Sun Solaris 10 and I just tried Gentoo as does another problem I am looking at. Is there something real strange about SuSE's Linux that does not allow all operations of X11? BTW, someone was suggesting my firewall. The firewall is OFF. Thanks for your ideas all! I may just give up and go the easier route. Tim Ertl 413-442-9000 x6211 -----Original Message----- From: John Andersen [mailto:jsamyth@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:34 PM Cc: SUSE Linux Subject: Re: [opensuse] xeyes -display unix:1.0 / Can't open display James Knott wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it looks like you're trying to run some application, such as xeyes remotely.
Looks like he is trying to push his display to another user, not run the application AS the other user. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org