Re: [LUG] python -> browser and X problem

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Error: Can't open display: :0
>
> What obvious thing am I missing?

> do I need to alter something with xhosts + or is it a matter of specifying
> the displlay differently?

One or the other ":0" is the name for the first local X server,
so most likely this is running as the wrong user and you need to
use xhost to allow it (Unless your doing this on a remote
computer, or Linux terminal server or similar when you may need
something other than ":0").

This is dead common on other *nix, but Linux seems to take care
of it for root, and some of the remote login utilities do a much
better job of setting the display, so you rarely see it on
Linux. Yet another reason the *nix community are getting less
for more money.

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