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[ale] re: Adobe Acrobat reader won't open file, huh ?....
- Subject: [ale] re: Adobe Acrobat reader won't open file, huh ?....
- From: bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu (Bjorn Roche)
- Date: Mon Oct 18 18:00:06 2004
- In-reply-to: <1098134906.22730.71.camel@reddwarf>
- References: <[email protected]> <1098134906.22730.71.camel@reddwarf>
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Josh Freeman wrote:
> are you su a different user than the one yo logged in as? It seems that
> whichever user is running acroread doesn't have permissions to the local
> X session. You can try xhost + localhost and see if that solves it.
>
This is a good thing to try, but note that there are security implications
to xhost + localhost (I understand that this lets anyone else on your
machine listen to your keystrokes) so it's neither a good permanant
solution nor a good thing to do on a multi-user machine.
bjorn
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