Re: mounting CDs? and emacs under SU?

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

DO NOT use xhost + without a hostname, that literally allows anything
connecting to your computer to open up an X client running on your
computer.  If you MUST use xhost to do this, use xhost +localhost

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Akintayo Holder wrote:

>
>> when you open up normal emacs with DISPLAY variable set, it tries to
>> create it's own window (and I repeat emacs, not Xmeacs).  So you just
>> have to figure out how to allow root from su session to conncet to
>> xserver. look at xhost as advised.
>
>try xhost +
>
>

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EMACS == Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping

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