connecting to display & tcp capture 2342

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 23:53:53 +0000 (UTC), Wayne Dernoncourt staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Google. "man $PROGRAM". usr-share-doc-howtoif you have the HOWTO are your thing, the latest edition of the O'Reilly book Running Linux may help--but it's a bit basic.

Too specific. If an X app can't access $DISPLAY, that X app won't work. But if you logged on to X as USER, and you started gmplayer as USER, gmplayer should have full access to :0 and should just work. I think you've omitted important information. Try this: Log in to X as a normal user, open an {xterm,konsole,aterm}, enter "gmplayerpath-to-something.avi". Reproduce the error messages you receive. If you don't have gmplayer installed, use ogle or xine or whatever.

The evil binary-only Flash plugin has its own problems. I don't know which version was standard with FC4, but it's almost certainly outdated by now. Update.

And what is the text of this message? Go read what is most likely to work well for getting tech support in text-only media.

Ain't gonna work in this modern day and age since X is always started with "-nolisten tcp". If you have to run X apps as users who didn't log in to X, you do "xhost +local:" as the user who logged in to X, then "export DISPLAY=:0" as whatever other user you need to run X apps as before starting those X apps. (Or "kdesu -u $USER $XAPP" if you have KDE running...)

Macs are not cheap, even if you go to smalldog.com . Who's paying for this? WP is essentially dead outside of legal firms. OpenOffice is Free even though it's a ~110M download, and it reads (probably doesn't write) WP files.

Read and understand the IP-Masqing HOWTO, though you'll probably need 2 NICs in your laptop for everything to work right. Capture the packets with ethereal (wireshark), look at them. Remember, brevity is the soul of effective communication on Usenet.

Read The Fine Manual, Search The Fine Web. following procedure also works:

0. Try something you haven't tried before. 1. If it worked, remember it, use it again. If not, remember how it failed, don't do it that way again. 2. Goto 0.

HTH,

-- Matt GThere is no Darkness in Eternity-But only Light too dim for us to see Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin mail: TRAP + SPAN don't belong ----------------------------- not the kind of person I'm preaching to.