Re: cant open display
On Friday 04 January 2002 10:59 am, Deva Seetharam wrote:
> Hi,
> i am running 2.2r4 with XFree86-4.1.0.
>
> i did export DISPLAY=`hostname`:0.0 as user and xhost +`hostname` as root.
> when i run netscape, i get the error message
> Error: Can't open display:...
>
> then i tried export DISPLAY=:0.0 and tried to run netscape.
> i get the error message
> Xlib:connection to :0.0 refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ke:0.0
>
> Could anyone please explain?
are you trying to run netscape as root? debian don't do dat.
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