[PD] Trouble Running PD as root

[Chris McCormick]

Or you can put:

xhost +localhost

into your .xsession file. Note that this will let any local users on your box open
windows on your X desktop.
(or just type it at the command line)

Chris.

On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:05:08PM -0400, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:
> The running PD part is working, the problem is that the "root" user does 
> not have access to the display owned by another user. either you can log 
> into X using root or you can do this:
> 
> su 
> cp ~[your normal username here]/.Xauthority ~
> export DISPLAY=':0'
> 
> /usr/local/bin/pd -rt blah blah
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, matt alford wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to run pd test 26 as root on SuSE 8.0.  When I did the
> > 'make install' as root it didn't add pd to roots path, so I am running
> > the binary in /usr/local/bin  When I do that I get the following:
> > 
> > reading startup file: /root/.pdrc
> > priority 98 scheduling enabled.
> > memory locking enabled.
> > priority 96 scheduling enabled.
> > memory locking enabled.
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Invalid XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 key (failed key comparison)
> > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
> > watchdog: signaling pd...
> > watchdog: signaling pd...
> > watchdog: signaling pd...
> > watchdog: signaling pd...
> > 
> > Is there a permissions problem? or am I running the wrong binary? 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
> > 
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