[ltp] R51 - OSD not working

[Florian Dorpmueller]

On my Thinkpad it makes no difference if I run "tpb -v" as root or as user. 
Both leads into the same result. Nevertheless I prefer using it as normal 
user but I have tried both cases.

I also deleted the "-nolisten tcp" option. On debian this option in located 
in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers. But the result is the same as before: No OSD and 
the same error message as before. Seems to be more complicated...

Flori

>From: Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] R51 - OSD not working
>Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:49:33 -0400
>
>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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