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Old 20th May 2009
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Originally Posted by gosha View Post
Code:
# xpdf
Error: Can't open display:
This is xpdf, but it could be a movie etc.
Why is it?
You are trying to open X client as root user on the X server which belongs to
regular user. That can be done but one needs to take care of certain permissions. I think at this point you would really benefit from reading man pages for X.Org because that was really elementary question.
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