[svlug] Stupd X Display question

[Larry Colen]

It works now, thanks.

I've tried all of these things and they didn't work. The one thing
that I hadn't tried was doing them all in the same window or at the
same time.

   Larry

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:00:57PM -0700, Seth Daniel wrote:
> Larry,
> 
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:54:02PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote:
> > I've got a Sony Vaio PCG fx190k that I'm running Debian 3.0 (Woody?)
> > on. I've got various odd problems. One is so simple that every bit of
> > documentation on it seems to assume something that I'm apparantly
> > missing. 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I've also tried playing with xhost, but that didn't seem to work
> > either:
> 
> o As your non-root user type: "xhost +" from an x-terminal
>   ( this allows *anyone* to connect to your current DISPLAY )
> o su to root
> o set your display: "export DISPLAY=:0"
> o run gvaiocontrols (as root)
> o when done with the program, as your non-root user, type: "xhost -"
>   ( this disables what you did in step one )
> 
> Something was odd with the e-mail headers so I'm just responding
> directly to you and not to the SVLUG mailing list.
> 
> -- 
> seth / @sethdaniel.org
> When in doubt, tell the truth.

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