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

[Bjorn Roche]

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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