Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Display gone
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:13:00
Message-Id: yu9y6df2tm8.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Display gone by alain.didierjean@free.fr
1 alain.didierjean@××××.fr writes:
2
3 > Just reinstalled Gentoo. Boot thru kdm. Works fine, but a lot of X & kde apps
4 > can't find the display and return
5 >
6 > No protocol specified
7 > No protocol specified
8 > xprop: unable to open display ':0'
9 >
10 > Did I forget to configure something ?
11
12 Perhaps these apps are running as another user.
13
14 An easy check (not safe for long term use) is to open a terminal
15 (assuming you can) and type
16 xhost +
17 which permits any process to write on the screen.
18
19 If this "fixes" it, then you should arrange the processes to run as you.
20
21 allan

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