Re: xhosts question..

[Brant Wells <dafyre@nlamerica.com>]

Howdy Allen:

In your $HOME direcotry, edit the file .xinitrc

In this file somewhere should be a line that says something like:
xhost + blablabla.

If you have no need for security (in a small home network like mine...) you can just
add in:

xhost +

and and that should solve the problem.

I think you may have to be root to run xhost.  I'm not sure.

HTH,

Brant W.

"Allen B. Riddell" wrote:

> Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account
> and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use
> xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses...
>
> Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something
> like that -- then I su back and everything works fine.
>
> I've read "man xhost" or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I
> can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just
> add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place?
>
> Can someone help?
>
> -abr
>
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