[ale] re: Adobe Acrobat reader won't open file, huh ?....

Josh Freeman josh at catea.org
Mon Oct 18 17:35:24 EDT 2004


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.

Josh

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 18:35, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> When I type:
> 
> 	acroread filewhatever.pdf
> 
> under Suse9.0, I get....
> 
> 	Xlib: connection to  0.0 refused by server
> 	Xlib: no protocol specified
> 	Error: can't open display 0.0
> 
> What's wrong and how can it be remedied ?
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
-- 
Josh Freeman
Technical Manager
Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access



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