Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:44:10 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is QEMU working/reliable under .... Message-ID: <871tme34qt.fsf@elk.localnet> In-Reply-To: <54C945C3.3070607@hiwaay.net> (William A. Mahaffey, III's message of "Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:25:39 -0600") References: <54C7C62A.5030605@hiwaay.net> <20150127210422.GA27921@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C838CE.7040502@hiwaay.net> <20150128071441.GA29698@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C8EFF3.6050803@hiwaay.net> <20150128192444.GA31295@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54C945C3.3070607@hiwaay.net>
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"William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes: > DISPLAY=:0.0 > [root@kabini1, WinXP, 10:21:44am] 503 % qemu-system-i386 -cdrom > ../../../ISOs/winxp.iso -hda HDD.img -m 256 -boot d -cpu athlon -vga > std -no-acpi -localtime > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > (<unknown>:20227): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > [root@kabini1, WinXP, 10:21:48am] 504 % > > > I have had this problem before, when I 'su' to root (usually from an > rxvt terminal running csh as a regular user), the environment isn't > set up correctly for most X11 stuff to work correctly when invoked > from that root CLI. I have posted about this before, but it still > persists. Any clue how to get this to work for me :-) ? TIA & thanks > for your reply. I don't usually run X11 apps as root, but I have ~/.Xauthority for root symbolic linked to ~/.Xauthority for the user that is running X11. I just tested with xclock and root can run that properly. -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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