[ltp] R51 - OSD not working

[Ingo van Lil]

On 08 Apr 2005, Florian Dorpmueller wrote:

> When I tap "tpb -v" I receive:
> "xosd kann nicht initialisiert werden. Keine Bildschirmanzeige m=F6glic=
h."=20
> which means that xosd is not able to be initialized and OSD is not poss=
ible.

Do you run tpb as the user who owns the X server or as root? If you
want to access the X server as root you have to allow it first
(xhost +local:root) and set the DISPLAY environment variable for your
tpb process. Simply running tpb as user spares you from all this
trouble.

        Cheers,
            Ingo