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| From: | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root | ||
| Date: | Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:09:22 | ||
| Message-Id: | i7dk7g$1fi$1@dough.gmane.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] X programs as root by Andrey Vul |
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| 1 | On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: |
| 2 | > When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > $sudo gui-admin |
| 5 | > No protocol specified |
| 6 | > gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | sudo doesn't keep the $DISPLAY environment variable by default. There |
| 13 | could be other issues too. Best stick to kdesu and friends; that's what |
| 14 | they are there for. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |