> (gnome-terminal:31609): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > By default in Fedora X server is set to "-nolisten tcp". You can change > that in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf by setting DisallowTCP=true -> false. > After X restart and trying what you want to achieve you have to also set > "xhost +localhost". You can set that line for automatically be executed > in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. Is that like doing a export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 Could John use VNC? > Alexander > > I hope you are running X as normal user and switch to root only by > opening a terminal and calling "su -" in it. Easiest way to get an > additional user console would be to open a new terminal. Never ever run > X as root! I so parnoid, I setup sudo for my user account :) David
