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hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

[SOLVED] xhost acting strange

xhost +localhost ->doesn't allow me to start new apps as other user
xhost + -> works

i know it's not a big deal but why would something like this happen

Last edited by hacosta (2007-11-08 16:15:44)

mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 247

Re: [SOLVED] xhost acting strange

Do you have the correct entry in /etc/hosts?

grep localhost /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost

If this happened only after recent X.org upgrade to 7.3 and it worked before then it could be a bug in X.org

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: [SOLVED] xhost acting strange

no, it has nothing to do with the upgrade, i've had this problem for a while but i really don't mind that much, my hosts file is fine xhost +127.0.0.1 doesn't work either

retsaw

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-03-22

Posts: 132

Re: [SOLVED] xhost acting strange

Perhaps your X server is not set to listen to TCP connections.  Though "xhost +local:" should still work, since that will allow all local socket connections.

hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: [SOLVED] xhost acting strange

thanks retsaw i checke my kdem config and
ServerArgsLocal= -nolisten tcp
i commented it out