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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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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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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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