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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!gateway!miki!oj
- From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
- Subject: Re: Why, why, why an Xt error?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.142810.371@miki.pictel.com>
- Organization: PictureTel Corporation
- References: <1993Jan5.223109.17295@qualix.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:28:10 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <1993Jan5.223109.17295@qualix.com> dshaker@qualix.com writes:
- >I have a user on using a NCR as an xclient and a Sun as an xserver.
- >... the clock comes up fine (access control on the Sun is not a problem).
- >However, if he then does
- > anotherApp &
- >he gets
- > Fatal Xt error: cannot open display.
-
- It's possible that anotherApp is statically bound with an R3 version
- of Xlib which ignores the R4-vintage xauth (~/.Xauthority) mechanism.
-
- Try issuing the command
- xhost +`hostname`
- before running anotherApp.
-