On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Ulrich Hobelmann wrote:
> I have a problem with Xnest (running XFree 4.2.0 on NetBSD 1.6/i386).
>
> I start it as usual with "XNest :1", but when I try connecting
> via xterm -display :1 or use any client after setting DISPLAY I get the
> following message:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :1
>
> At the same time Xnest writes
> AUDIT: Thu Oct 31 20:43:59 2002: 825 Xnest: client 1 rejected from local
> host
>
> I've tried connecting as root, or starting Xnest as root, but this
> doesn't help. I've also tried setting DISPLAY to localhost:1.0 and stuff...
I ran into the same problem yesterday (4.2.0 on Red Hat 8), and was able
to use Xnest by running it as:
Xnest :1 -auth /dev/null
I'm sure that's not the correct solution, but it worked for me.
Brian
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