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Re: CAN'T OPEN DISPLAY IN WOODY



On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:36:41AM +0100, Felipe Martínez Hermo wrote:
> 	
> 	Hi everybody!
> 
> 	I have just upgraded to woody and I just can't connect to my X
> 	server.
> 
> 	User "felipe" is running X and I want to execute an application
> 	on that X server. The usual procedure used to be:
> 
> 		felipe@machine$ xhost +
> 
> 		felipe@machine$ su somebody
> 		Password:
> 
> 		somebody@machine$ export DISPLAY=machine:0.0
> 
> 		somebody@machine$ xcalc & (for example)
> 
> 
> 	This used to work in potato, but it does not in woody. Anybody
> 	can tell me how can I fix this?

1.- do not shout in the subject.

2.- you might want to check the "-nolisten tcp" option under
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc

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