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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:06:24
Message-Id: 200507060800.34823.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
1 Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 05:07 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy:
2
3 > After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no
4 > longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via
5 > su in an xterm work fine).
6
7 Can you check if $DISPLAY is set correctly after sudo? If not, look up
8 env_keep, env_reset settings in /etc/sudoers. See man sudoers for details.
9
10 HTH...
11
12 Dirk
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