From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 16 7:54:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7363F37B401 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GF100A012RN15@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GF100K7K2RMXJ@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 07:55:07 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: OT: Xwindows Error While Using KDE 2.1-- SOLVED In-reply-to: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F023907DBCE@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> To: 'Joe Guetler' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259FA2@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you! That worked. Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Guetler [mailto:joe@axiomadvertising.com] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 1:29 PM > To: Drew Tomlinson > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: Xwindows Error While Using KDE 2.1 > > > it's an Xwindows security issue. Try typing xhost > +localhost on the > command line as a normal user before you su. > > Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > > > I installed KDE 2.1.1 on my 4.3-STABLE machine. I'm logged on via a > > regular account and open a terminal window. If I enter a > command while > > su'ed to root that would open up a window, I get the > following error: > > > > milkmaker# nmapfe > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > > > However if I issue the same command not su'ed, then it > works fine. I have > > experienced this with other commands as well such as > konqueror. Does > > anybody have any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Drew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message