Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:26:06 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice) Message-ID: <4435DBCE.1050805@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <200604061808.19808.oliver.iberien@charter.net> References: <200604061808.19808.oliver.iberien@charter.net>
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Oliver Iberien wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > When you built OOo did you use the -DWITH_CUPS option? -- Duane Whitty
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