Ximian/RedCarpet/SuSE 7.2 Question

[Andrew Mathews]

"T.J. Arrowsmith" wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to run red carpet on a SuSe7.2 box.  In order to be able to
> install, you need to run as root.  There's a bug in red carpet that prevents
> a user from running red carpet as root from the menus on a SuSE 7.2 box.
> The workaround is to open a terminal window, su, then run red carpet from
> the command line.  I tried that and got the following error message:
> 
> Xlib: Connectioin to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem?  If so, can you let me know how to fix
> it?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> T.J.
> 
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As a normal user from a command prompt run "xhost +" (without quotes)
then suto root and run the command.