Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in
openoffice)
Oliver Iberien
oliver.iberien at charter.net
Fri Apr 7 01:08:22 UTC 2006
In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far
as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as
root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of
dialogs in windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a "no protocol
specified" error.
bsd# setenv DISPLAY ":0.0"
bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
/usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open
display: :0.0
Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
or check permissions of your X-Server
(See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
I looked at the xhost page and tried:
bsd# xhost +root
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing?
Oliver
PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin with
sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own folder.
su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting
~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes
nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there.
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