RUN MOL IN WINDOW I.S.O. FULLSCREEN

Samuel Rydh mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:58:24 +0200


On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 05:09:57PM +0000, Philippe van Calsteren wrote:
> Hello Douglas
> 
> I wish this was the solution for me, but sadly it isn't ..
> If i setup the molrc.video like you describe, and try to start mol,
> i get the following output:
> 
> Could not connect to X server localhost:0.0
> Video driver(s):
> No video modes at all was found - exiting
> cleaning up...
> Terminating threads...
> DONE
> 
> I also try'd 'xhost +' before, and i recompiled my kernel and mol modules,

This seems to be an X11 peculiarity. On my system, I can start
X11 program as a user using either ':0.0' or 'localhost:0.0'. However
if I change user to root, then only :0.0 works (this is true
all X11 programs, not only MOL). I suggest you do

	export DISPLAY=:0.0
	startmol

Cheers,

/Samuel