setting X windows display back?
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Sep 4 14:39:29 UTC 2007
Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a box running fedora core 2. I cannot set the display back
> to this box when I'm on another machine. Here is what
>
> I type:
>
> berry:/home/paula: xhost +
>
> then I open up a terminal and ssh to another machine. When I get
> to the other machine, I type,
>
> straws:/home/paula: setenv DISPLAY berry:0.0
> permission denied
>
>
> and it does not work. There is no selinux or firewalls up, so it
> isn't a security issue. Does someone know something about this? I
> don't have this trouble on any of my other boxes.
>
> Many thanks,
> Paula
>
>
Paul, by default, Fedora is set to "Deny TCP connections to X
server". You can change this by going to System --> Administration
--> Login Screen --> Security. There is a check box for it.
Mikkel
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