Mark, Do you know where I can RTFM further concerning the xhost options that you provided below? They are not in my xhost man pages, and they are not in the xhost help text (i.e. xhost -help) .
Thank you, Jerry Mark Phalan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 00:28 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> After I su to a different user (which could be root or a non-root user), I >> am getting the following message when I try to run any x-based program such >> as firefox: >> >> (firefox-bin:2060): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: >> >> Can anyone help? Thanks. >> >> Also, how do I add user names to the x access control list? > > > Before su'ing run > > $ xhost +si:localuser:root > > (replace root with whatever user you are su'ing to) > > after su'ing > > $ export DISPLAY=:0 > > > -Mark > >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> xwin-discuss mailing list >> xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org
