Stop in /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52.

[Matthew Seaman]

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 12:00:33PM +0000, Dimitris wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:55:40 +0000 Steve Purkis <steve at twistedfish.net> w=
rote:
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> > /usr/ports/editors/staroffice52/work/office52/so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bi=
n: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> > *** Error code 255
>=20
> If i remember correctly, the SO installation must be run under X (its a g=
raphical installer).
>=20
> Maybe you are running it in a shell, thus it can't connect to X.
>=20
> In case you ARE running it under X, then the problem must
> be something else... :P

If you run the StarOffice install su'd to root you won't necessarily
be able to open windows on your desktop. X defaults to locking out all
other users, even root. Try:

    xhost +local:

before you su, which will permit any user locally on your machine to
open up windows on your desktop.  Or indeed, because of the way ssh
poses as an X server if you use it to tunnel remote X sessions, it
will allow any user that you su to or login as on a remote machine
reached by ssh to open windows on your desktop.

If that level of control is too imprecise for you, you can use:

    % xauth extract /tmp/foo :0.0
    % su
    # xauth merge /tmp/foo

which copies your .Xsession credentials for your session on the local
display to /root/.Xsession, thus allowing root access to your desktop.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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