From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 01:08:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB1E16A401 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver.iberien@charter.net) Received: from mxsf28.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf28.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C77843D45 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:08:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oliver.iberien@charter.net) Received: from mxip34a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip34a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.249]) by mxsf28.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3718KsS007506 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 21:08:20 -0400 Received: from 24-205-236-185.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com (HELO linux.linux) ([24.205.236.185]) by mxip34a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 06 Apr 2006 21:08:20 -0400 From: Oliver Iberien To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:08:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604061808.19808.oliver.iberien@charter.net> Subject: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 01:08:22 -0000 In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs in windows and so I've tried to set the display. I get a "no protocol specified" error. bsd# setenv DISPLAY ":0.0" bsd# /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US" Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin.bin X11 error: Can't open display: :0.0 Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option or check permissions of your X-Server (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details) I looked at the xhost page and tried: bsd# xhost +root Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified The same thing happened with xhost +. What am I missing? Oliver PS Using sudo does not work as for some reason when I try to run spadmin with sudo, spadmin can't find libraries it needs that are in its own folder. su-ing gets the same result as running as root, and deleting ~/.openoffice.org-2.0.2 and running spadmin as a normal user changes nothing -- apparently nothing printer-related is in there.