[SunRescue] netscape/xlib problem.

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Fri Aug 20 12:27:10 CDT 1999


Yep, logged in as root.  I know that's bad, but I don't have any
applications installed yet, so I don't want to start using a normal user
quite yet.  :)
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Rouse [mailto:drouse at arlington.newsargus.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 1999 8:28 AM
> To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] netscape/xlib problem.
> 
> 
> Are you logged in as root? I've never bothered to make it work, but I 
> think there is something extra you have to do to make 
> Netscape run when 
> you are logged in as root.
> 
> DRouse
> 
> 
> > Actually, this is on my SS20 running Solaris7.  I'm sitting 
> in front 
> of it,
> > running CDE, and wanting to use netscape because the Java 
> browser is 
> really
> > slow, and has a couple of bugs(frames don't work properly). 
>  I got it
> > working, but I'm not sure what I did was a good thing.  I 
> ran xauth, 
> and had
> > it show me all of the allowed displays (at least I think 
> that's what 
> they
> > were).  I typed in "add localhost:0.0" and then pasted the other
> > goobley-gook from one of the other entries after that.  I 
> tried using 
> the
> > "xauth +localhost" from the command line as was suggested, but that 
> didn't
> > get me anywhere.  Thanks,
> >     Greg
> 
> 
> 
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