Re: pon oddities - pop-up windows from ip-up.local, pppstatus
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:28:44AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:34:33PM -0400, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:06:14PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > > $ /usr/bin/X11/xhost +
> > Yes, I had done that.
> > > Then as root in a terminal:
> > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 <your user name here>
> > This was the missing piece! I was missing the user name.
>
> Nice that this problem is solved. But I do not understand why so many
> use "xhost" in a insecure way instead of correctly setting DISPLAY and
It turns out that xhost + (as the regular user) wasn't
necessary. I had actually reset that and it still worked when
I tried the DISPLAY line above.
>...
A.
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