Track down problem with access to display 0.0
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Tue Jul 27 13:17:32 UTC 2004
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Summary:
> Running FC3T1 (updated)
> Kde desktop
> Using default run level 3 and `startx' from cli to enter X.
>
> Can someone point me to documentation that spells out the string of
> events that occur when X is started. In my case I default to run
> level 3 and `startx' as needed.
>
> In past releases I've always been able to ssh root at localhost from a
> user xterm in X and the resulting root terminal would be able to run X
> applications in that users X session. Now I get messages that say
> things like: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
>
> Depending on which app it is, the warnings differ but always `no access
> to display' is the punch line.
>
> I'm thinking if I unravel the scripting that startx runs I'll find
> where somekind of authorization is being invoked. Maybe --nolisten or
> something similar. I have looked at /etc/X11 scripts like `startx',
> `xinit' and `Xclients' but am getting really lost as to what is
> calling what etc.
>
> I hoped somewhere the startup sequence of X in Fedora specifically
> might be outlined.
>
> PS-setting `xhost +' doesn't seem to have any effect on this.
Have you tried 'ssh -Y root at localhost' ?
Satish
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