On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> Audrey Beck wrote:
> >
> > Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Francois Massonneau wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > When I want to run a program, this is the warning message I've (and of
> > > > course, the program doesn't fire up) :
> > > > Gtk-WARNING ** : cannot open display.
> > > > I have a Matrox Millenium II, and have no problem when running Xwindow.
> > > > What do I have to do to make it works ? Thanks. Francois
> > >
> > > Set $DISPLAY, and try again..
> > >
> > > export DISPLAY=:0
> >
> > I can export this ok and it shows in my env, but it doesn't fix the
> > errors about $DISPLAY that I'm getting. Well, it fixes the part where
> > it tells me $DISPLAY is not setup in env. Can you help here?
> >
> > # netcfg
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 24, in ?
> > from rhtkinter import *
> > File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/rhtkinter.py", line 52, in ?
> > e = Entry()
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1288, in __init__
> > Widget.__init__(self, master, 'entry', cnf, kw)
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1042, in __init__
> > BaseWidget._setup(self, master, cnf)
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1017, in _setup
> > _default_root = Tk()
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 844, in __init__
> > self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className)
> > TclError: couldn't connect to display ":0"
>
> It may be a stupid question, but is X running when you're trying to
> start netcfg?
>
Looks like it's being denied, do 'xhost +local:' before you su.
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