adding guest mode to x server?

linuxmandrake · 11-30-2005, 05:50 PM

Well vmware is complaining about not having a guest mode within the x server. Now occasionally I will need to remotely boot up vmware over a vnc session. It's only when am using it via vnc in full screen mode it complains. Any help will be appriciated

bigrigdriver · 11-30-2005, 10:01 PM

I don't know if this will help. Occaisionally, a user may want to run something as root, but with GUI interface. If one then does su to root, the result is an error message - couldn't connect to server, or some such.

The cure, as user, is to issue the command - xhost +localhost, then su to root to run some app in GUI mode. When done, remove root from the guest list with xhost -localhost.

Now, I'm wondering if you could do 'xhost +vmware' or some such, to name vmware as the guest user, and have it work. Worth a try.

All you loose is a failed attempt if it doesn't work. If it does work, you're in business.

See the man page for xhost for more info.

linuxmandrake · 12-01-2005, 08:02 AM

it says it's a bad hostname

raska · 12-01-2005, 08:19 AM

this actually worked for me!!!!

thanks a lot bigrigdriver

I got this output

Code:

$ xhost +localhost
localhost being added to access control list
$ su
Password:
# /opt/kde/bin/kate
kbuildsycoca running...
KWrited - Listening on Device /dev/pts/3
ASSERT: "m_currentContainer==container" in kateviewmanager.cpp (196)