Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

[Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com>]

Ran into this sometime back myself.. it was related to gdm options. 
something about a -nolisten option

James Tappin wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 02:12:34 -0800
> "Kevin" <kevin@robertsesq.com> wrote:
>
>
> > FYI
> > If I try xhost +localhost
> > xhost:  unable to open display "debian:0.0"
>
>
> 3 alternatives spring to mind; either:
> xhost +debian # as the original user
> or:
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0 # as root before running make xconfig
> or even:
> ssh -X root@localhost # instead of su

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