xhost +localhost

Rod Person roddierod at gawab.com
Thu Feb 3 06:38:18 PST 2005


On Wednesday 02 February 2005 5:58 pm, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> i want a screensaver but the ....... xscreensaver daemon wont start
> complaining about acces controle. I did xhost +localhost but it still
> wont start :(

Sounds like your trying to run the screensaver from a root terminal in a 
normal user session. If so, just run xscreensaver as the user.

-- 
Rod

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