How is it your email dosnt have the standard TCLUG list footer? I thought that got appended to every message. Jay On Tuesday 20 August 2002 10:23 am, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:35:06AM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > On Monday 19 August 2002 23:40, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:29:44PM -0500, Peter Clark wrote: > > > > This should have a simple answer: there are times when I want > > > > processes owned by other users to spawn windows in my current X > > > > session. What settings do I enable / change to avoid the dreaded > > > > "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server" and "Xlib: Client is > > > > not authorized to connect to Server" messages from appearing? > > > > > > > > :Peter > > > > > > xhost +localhost > > > > > > man xhost > > > > Perhaps just a little more info, please. :) Running as a normal user, I > > typed 'xhost +localhost' and then switched to a root console and tried > > opening up 'kmenuedit' but could not connect. The man file was not > > terribly helpful, although it made me realize that I don't have > > /etc/X*.hosts files. Restarting the server likewise had no beneficial > > effect. > > Have you set the DISPLAY environment to ":0" or put "-display :0" on the > command line of the application you wish to start? > > florin