You need to start Xvfb. It should have been installed on your machine as
part of XFree86.
Do a search through the archives for Xvfb, and you'll get a bunch of
references.
I assume that when you state that you must be logged in as root,
you are starting the server
Sounds like you don't have the native graphics context.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin McIsaac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Xserver & Tomcat
>
>
> I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1 under Linux 2.2.16 Slack 7.1 and the 1.3 JDK.
>
> I have a servlet that does some .gif creation for graphs and returns the
> .gif in a page. I don't seem to be able to setup Linux and Tomcat together
> to do this. I always have to be logged in as root.
>
> I've set xhost +localhost, I've run xauth, I've set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> and =machinename:0.0.
>
> This is all running under xdm as the xserver. I'm wondering now
> if anyone in
> the Tomcat world has run into this and solved it?
>
> Kev
> www.servidium.com
>
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