Re: [Sheflug] Can't figure xhosts, xauth and Xsecurity.

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>OK,
>
> I've attempted to read the man pages this time :-)
>
> I'm still getting this error for my nsadmin user:
>
>[nsadmin@flux www]$ Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.
>Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
>Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
>connections from your machine.
>
> Yet it wasn't all that long ago that I did (as root)
>
>xhosts +localhost

did you do export DISPLAY= first?

atb

Martin

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