Thread: [Canola] DEVELOPERS: Canola Plugin Development Released : Use this thread and IRC for info!
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2008-04-18 , 13:12
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#27
Originally Posted by fleury View Post
frethop, are you trying to run canola SDK as a diferent user than your X11 session's one? This error usually means canola was unable to connect to an X server.

Try allowing external connections to your X server with "xhost +" (as the X session owner) and exporting the env var DISPLAY=:0.0 (as the user running canola sdk).

Let me know if it works.
Thanks. THat was it. I had previously ran Scratchbox & Xephyr -- setting my DISPLAY variable to put apps on Xephyr (:2). Resetting to :0 did the trick! Marvelous!