

mark j. dulcey writes:
>It means that you have to use xhost to give your own machine and/or user
>name permission to use X. As a quick test, you can type "xhost +" in a
>terminal window to turn off X access control altogether, and then try
>Netscape.

polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1060] export DISPLAY=polaris:0.0
polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1061] xhost +
Xlib: connection to "polaris:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
xhost:  unable to open display "polaris:0.0"
polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1062] export DISPLAY=:0.0
polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1063] xhost +
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xhost:  unable to open display ":0.0"
polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1064] export DISPLAY=
polaris:root:~/tmp/netscape-installer [1065] xhost +
xhost:  unable to open display ""

there must be something awfully basic that i'm missing.

dan