Re: [RP] OT: Xnest refuses connections

[Adam Huuva]

Jesper Holmberg wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry for the OT, but I was thinking someone here might have succeeded
> in running Xnest under Debian Woody, and I couldn't get any help on
> debian-user. I'm trying to use Xnest under Woody. But with no luck. Starting
> Xnest is fine:
> 
> bash% xterm -display :1 &
> 
> However, I cannot get any program to start in the newly created
> Xserver/client:
> 
> bash% xterm -display :1
> AUDIT: Wed Oct 17 20:47:04 2001: 8927 Xnest: client 1 rejected from local host
> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :1
> 
> I'm guessing this might have something to do with xauth or something
> similar, i.e. there is some issue with the privileges, but how should I go
> about solving this?
> 

bash% Xnest -ac 
should "disable access control restrictions"

It's in the command line help.

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