[ltp] R51 - OSD not working

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 08 April 2005 18:07, after a long battle with technology, Ingo 
van Lil wrote:
> On 08 Apr 2005, Florian Dorpmueller wrote:
> > When I tap "tpb -v" I receive:
> > "xosd is not able to be initialized and OSD is not possible."
> 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 

Er.  In a lot of distros these days, X is started with "-nolisten tcp" 
by default.  This makes it impossible to do the old "xhost +localhost ; 
export DISPLAY=localhost:0" thing, since X is not listening for TCP at 
all.

You can change this by editing the Xservers file 
( /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers on my machine, YMMV if you're 
not running KDE) and removing -nolisten tcp from the line(s) 
controlling the local X display.

> Simply running tpb as user spares you from all this trouble.

Aye.  Do that.

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