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From: Niklas Herder <herder@××××××.se>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xlib: connection refused by server
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:18:00
Message-Id: 41B48622.1030300@dsv.su.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Xlib: connection refused by server by Raffaele BELARDI
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4 Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
5 | I normally login as user A. Sometimes I need to su to user B and run an
6 | X application (rxvt, gnucash, mozilla...) as user B, but if I do I get a
7 | "Xlib: Connection refused by server".
8 |
9 | I've browsed through man Xsecurity but I can't find an easy way out. If
10 | I run "xhost +" as user A, user B's rxvt spawns all right, but gnucash
11 | still reports an error when connecting to gconfd (whatever that is).
12 |
13 | Any hint?
14 |
15 | I'm running IceWM/xorg on an AMD64 2004.3.
16 |
17 | thanks,
18 |
19 | raffaele
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25 One easy trick is to do ssh -X user@localhost :)
26 I find that much easier than mucking about with X permissions.
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28 /N
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