Ximian/RedCarpet/SuSE 7.2 Question

[Matthew Carpenter]

Alt-F2
xhost localhost

Then do whatever.  This allows any local app (no matter who owns it) to write to your X Session.
If  you're concerned about this (like others can log into the box) run "xhost" with no params and it empties out the access lists again.

begin  "T.J. Arrowsmith" <tarrowsmith at amicapital.com>
(Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:13:57 -0500)

> 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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