[UCLA-LUG] help with xscreen saver

[Dan Helfman]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 06:22:49PM -0700, Luis wrote:
> I loaded red hat 6.2 on my box . When i was ready to go home, i tried to 
> set up my screen saver but i keep on getting a error message . when i tried 
> to go into the xscreensaver it told me
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0
> xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0)
> xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (99/99)
> 
> xscreensaver: Errors at starup are usually authorization problems
> 
> 			Did you read the manual on the faz? Specifically the parts of the manual 
> that talk about XAUTH, XDMA and root logins?
> 
> Well thats the whole message that i get when i try to run the xscreensaver 
> . so would anyone out there be able to help me out with this problem

Try typing:
xhost +localhost

If that dosen't work, let us know.

> 
> 
> Luis

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