Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus

[Charlie <ariestao@clearmail.com.au>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, A. F. Cano shared this with us all:
>--} I've also tried without su.  The result is the same:
>--}
>--} konsole: cannot connect to X server
>--}
>--} And this is even after I've typed
>--}
>--} xhost +
>--}
>--} from a regular user console.

You may need to do the following:

As user in a terminal:

$ /usr/bin/X11/xhost +

Then as root in a terminal:

# export DISPLAY=:0.0 <your user name here>

HTH
Charlie
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