Felipe Mart�nez Hermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have just upgraded to woody and I just can't connect to my X > server. > > User "felipe" is running X and I want to execute an application > on that X server. The usual procedure used to be: > > felipe@machine$ xhost +
Gaack! That's *always* the wrong answer... > felipe@machine$ su somebody > Password: > > somebody@machine$ export DISPLAY=machine:0.0 > > somebody@machine$ xcalc & (for example) I'd suggest reading the Remote-X-Apps mini-HOWTO, either off of http://www.linuxdoc.org/ or under /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/mini if you have the doc-linux-text package installed. Section 7 describes how to do this sort of thing safely. (Answering a little more directly, woody's X server intentionally disabled direct network connections to prevent naive users from opening massive security holes for themselves with 'xhost +'. You *could* turn this back on but you really don't want to. In normal usage you should never need to set DISPLAY directly; you should either use ssh X forwarding if you're connecting to a remote machine or set XAUTHORITY or something similar to use a local connection. All of this is covered in the mini-HOWTO, though.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
