ah... good point. In which case he should (from an xterm on the same display, as the same user logged into X) type: xhost localhost
and then hopefully any user can connect to his X server from the local machine... Cheers, Gareth On Monday 07 April 2003 16:59, Nick Rout wrote: > is this from within an xterm? and is it from the same user as the user > logged in to X? > > this happens typically when another user, eg root, tries to run > something on the desktop. > > On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:33:02 +1200 > > Herb Petrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Wright wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: > > >>In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are > > >> in. > > > > > > Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type > > > > > > "gimp <filename>" > > > > > > (replace <filename> with a file you want to edit) > > > > > > and tell us what error messages you get? That'll help us determine > > > what's going wrong :) > > > > > > Tim Wright > > > > > > Assistant Lecturer > > > Department of Computer Science > > > University of Canterbury > > > > > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > > > The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: > > This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full > > directory path to it. > > > > Herb Petrie.
