How to shedule X task in GNOME?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue May 25 21:46:20 UTC 2004



On Tue, 25 May 2004, David L Norris wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 07:47, Alexander Kozlov wrote:
>> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
>> I understand what the problem is, but can't solve it. I did try to pass
>> "-display :0" argument, it didn't help. Is there any way I can do it?
>
> You need to disable local X security.
>
> 1) Add "DisallowTCP=false" to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf then kill gdm-binary
> 2) run "xhost +localhost" as the user who is authenticated with X.

Lools like 'xterm -display :0' doesn't work for me as well. Don't know
why.

However the following works with 'at' (assuming bash)
DISPLAY=:0 xterm

Satish





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