How do I start the kmyfirewall?

Ragnar · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 3:19 am Post subject: How do I start the kmyfirewall?

I have emerged kmyfirewall.

But I'm new to Linux and KDE.

I have tried typing kmyfirewall in the shell but it sais,

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kmyfirewall: cannot connect to X server :0.0

mglauche · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 1:17 pm Post subject:

this is because you probably run kde/X11 as normal user (and thats good !), but have to run the firewall utility as root.

as user run:
xhost localhost
as root run:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

xhost localhost allows all users on localhost to access your X11 session .. (if this is a single user machine, it does not matter)