On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:08 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > Don't try this as root. I think the display for root is only
> > accessible via the local machine. This is one of the reasons why the
> > screen savers don't work when logged in as root.
> >
> > You should be able to get a normal user setup to perform this task.
> >
> > If you log in as root on the local machine and check the X logs you
> > will see all sorts of WARNINGS like this....
> >
> > Try your configuration and setup as another user and see what happens.
> >
> > James Kosin
>
> As a normal user on both machines I get the exact same behavior. In
> response to the other post, I only left out the :0 when I typed it. In
> the commands I was actually using it.
>
> Any other suggestions? I don't see anything in Xorg.0.log. Maybe I
> should install and run ethereal and make sure it's even trying?
Have you tried using ssh with X forwarding ("ssh -X" or "ssh -Y") to
connect to the remote machine?; that would not require you to fiddle
with either xhost or the DISPLAY variable - it should just work.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
