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From: "W.Kenworthy" <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:49:19
Message-Id: 1120632279.7943.62.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Thanks, thats the hint I needed. "env_reset" was spoiling things.
2 Enabling the exception for the wheel group fixed it safely.
3
4 BillK
5
6 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:00 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
7 > Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 05:07 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy:
8 >
9 > > After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no
10 > > longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via
11 > > su in an xterm work fine).
12 >
13 > Can you check if $DISPLAY is set correctly after sudo? If not, look up
14 > env_keep, env_reset settings in /etc/sudoers. See man sudoers for details.
15 >
16 > HTH...
17 >
18 > Dirk
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