Questions tagged [xhost]
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Opening FireFox from CLI causes X error "cannot open display: 0"
When I try to open FireFox in my Linux machine from the CLI, this error shows up:
Error: cannot open display: :0
I have tried to set the DISPLAY to a lot of values, :0, :0.0, :1, :1.0, 0...
I have ...
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Terminal in XRDP session. Solve 'Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified'?
There was a similar question, but it was about Cygwin. My question is RDP. I set up XRDP on a Linux computer and used Windows' Remote Desktop Connection to connect to it. Inside of the RDP window, I ...
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Xorg / X11: How to provide Cookie-based access to X Server using xauth?
I know the risk, I know there is ssh -X, etc etc. What I want is to be able from one remote machine (X client) to connect to my local machine (X server) on a user (cookie) basis.
I understood that ...
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LXDE doesn't start - fonts missing?
So I have my Raspberry Pi (B+), and want to run LXDE on it. Should be installed. So I run startx, and i get a black screen with a dash in the top left corner. Weird. XINIT tells me XTERM isn't ...
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Xvnc via systemctl : how to use "xhost +"
I would like to run Xvnc on Fedora 16 as a service. Not vncserver, given that carries the weight of a full window manager, but just Xvnc to start X.
I would also like "xhost +" to run on the X ...
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Command to run as root on boot isn't working
I need to run the following command sudo xhost SI:localuser:root every time I start a machine of mine. So I'd like automate this process. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for this.
I tried put this command ...
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Opening emacs through SSH on OS X
[kevin@serverA myFolder]$ emacs sample
emacs: Cannot connect to X server <IP Address>
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'. Also use the `xhost'
program to verify that it is set to ...
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How can I relax the X security constraints for the jenkins daemon?
It works fine on the commandline, when I do
xhost +
su - jenkins
emulator -avd myAVD.avd
but
emulator -avd myAVD.avd
executed by jenkins daemon fails with
"SDL init failure: No available ...
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Allow only one extra user to access the display
The question is based on the thread.
How can you allow only one user to access the display by xhost?
sudo xhost masi is not working in my fresh Ubuntu 9.10.
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Running X11 Server on Mac OS X - and connecting from a remote machine
Originally asked on SO - transfer to SU suggested on SO, but transfer made manually.
I have a Windows XP laptop, and I can run the Cygwin X11 server on there (script startxwin.bat, IIRC). I also use ...
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