[argyllcms] Re: No protocol specified and no displays found

Cheers, I found the problem, your mention of X11 authorisation made me
think.  For some reason root now has no access to the display, running
as the normal user fixed the problem (though has created some others).

Cheers

Peter.

2008/5/29 Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Peter Smyth wrote:
>>
>> No protocol specified
>> Dispwin: Error - Unable to open the default display
>
>> I'm not doing anything differently to what I've done before and it
>> used to work.  Any ideas?  I'm on linux, running as root.
>
> Sounds like a Linux/X11 specific issue, nothing to do with dispwin.
> (ie. try any running any X11 program like xeyes, and I would expect
> you will get a similar message).
>
> Basically there is an problem communicating to the X11 server. It could
> be the $DISPLAY variable, X11 authorization, networking setup, using ssh
> etc. etc.
> I'm not familiar with what can go wrong to really help much more than this
> though, sorry.
>
> Graeme Gill.
>
>
>

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