Re: xterm problem

[Christopher Pruden <x97pruden1@xxxxxxxxx>]

You need to allow yourself to connect to the X server...
As root(or the user who started the Xserver) run

xhost +127.0.0.1
From this you can also allow other systems to display their programs on a specific
monitor.
You will probably have to do this once per session, but someone else might have a
better idea,
as well as potential security problems with this way.
Chris Pruden

Bill Katsma wrote:

> soome time I wish to su to another user (root) and run an application as that
> user but I seem to have a problem when it is trying to redisplay back. iget "**
> WARNING **: cannot open display: "  I am not logged in on any other systemthis
> only when I do an su.
>
> I can open xterm by typing this "xterm -display :0 &" then initiating the
> command from the xterm but that is to messy.  I did not have a problem with
> bsware 5.2.  I am running bsware 6.0 now.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill Katsma