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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 01:35:46PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote |
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> I'm not exactly sure when, but starting a month or so ago, vim has been |
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> acting weird when |
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> I run it as root. For one thing, there are messages |
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> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server |
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General rule... by default X apps cannot be run by any user other than |
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the one who started the X session. This bites you when you launch X as |
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regular user, and then "su -". Is vim considered an X app? Yes, if |
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you've emerged vim with the X USE flag enabled. You have two options. |
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1) Get rid of the X-integration by going into /etc/portage/package.use |
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and adding the line... |
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app-editors/vim -X |
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You'll have to re-emerge vim after making that change. This gets rid |
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of X-integration for vim. |
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2) If you really really need the X-integration features, you can use the |
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"xhost" command to enable all users on your machine to run X apps on |
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your X session. E.g. my machine is 192.168.123.249 so I ran... |
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xhost +192.168.123.249 |
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...to allow a 32-bit QEMU-KVM guest to run an X program on the 64-bit |
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host's Xwindows session. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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