Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:49:45 -0400 From: Jonathan Lyster <jslyster@operamail.com> To: FreeBSD <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: XFree86-4 woes Message-ID: <200109211443.f8LEhhi26926@clmboh1-smtp1.columbus.rr.com>
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Folks; I have 4.3-stable on my system. Yesterday I upgraded XFree86 to version 4 and managed to get KDM configured to auto-magically launch KDE into my default user account (NOT root, of course). I don't like logging out of my user account to go into root whenever I need to change configuration settings or access a conf file; I'd rather open a terminal and use "su" to enter my root account for administrative tasks. My problem is this: whenever I enter my root account this way and then try launching kedit or kcontrol, I run into problems. No application will run this way--launched from a terminal that has been "su"ed to access the root account. They worked fine when launched this way in XFree86-3.3.6, but not in version 4.0.3. When I try to launch kedit this way, I get this error message: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server kedit: cannot connect to X server :0.0 When I try running kcontrol, I get a lot error messages; if you folks can't give me a fix based on the note above, I'll post the longer message from kcontrol. Thanks muchly. Regards; Jonathan Lyster ============================== Look for "The Opera 5.x Book," available now from No Starch Press. http://www.nostarch.com "All of us are born right-handed; only the gifted overcome it." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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