FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

[Oliver Iberien]

About 30 seconds after I finally sent this, I found the answer. It's always a 
matter of phrasing the Google search correctly:

$ xhost +local:local
non-network local connections being added to access control list
$ su
Password:
bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
bsd#      

... and it worked. xhosts refers to networks not usernames. You run it as a 
normal user, then switch to su, then execute the command. I found the answer 
here:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-xfree86/2004-Feb/0028.html

Sounds like a really insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the 
only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this 
might help someone else down the line.

Oliver

On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> 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.