Re: Xlib: connection refused

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Subject: Re: Xlib: connection refused
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:48:14 +0100
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Hello

hsrai@gndec.ac.in (<hsrai@gndec.ac.in>) wrote:

> On Debian, when I want to see rendered stress in a Finite Element
> Method (FEM) software (FELT), the message in window appears as:
> 
> | Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> | Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> and nothing is rendered. What could be solution.

You do not happen to run the program as root while running X as another
user, do you? If that is the case, type

export XAUTHORITY=/home/hsrai/.Xauthority

or use some wrapper like gksu, kdesu or sux to run the program, if it
needs to be run as another use than the one that opened the X session.

best regards
 Andreas Janssen

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