From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OyaUm-0000SR-9W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:21:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 303D7E075F; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E8FE075F for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:19:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so668350ywf.40 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:19:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=rm1OKxsCJNa4TLtxQl6y8gJzBAE4uUatDcxjO+k1GEk=; b=obiZCen98VJH7MnM7vXK3HjJ2WhB8xSzx76+8uiPf6Ix0CwM/+MIPC7iqEMNF2z/Hs eHz9LS5p4mDWTdJj50bVcuK+PQMq7Au3xURByFh8c/FAqosdpQx1+yJ1c/ac9EgQmAWo wI6lJ6+opji8BLL7NhJnVxlz+X1E3IlC85cAI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pDOMJEyCIsr6ka0aKGq+CEIzPqdVy2OMKLUIntYUp4MLRscEefA8uAf3k97qULi/MN Zelm5S/LN6/aKrau2Zk0xFDTCbp2t2XN3Uxkyb8b9xamAWkVbt7feB1K3VCYZlCap9CR suExE2cU2uNE1W6cZWjrtbOr6p510m1re6jaU= Received: by 10.151.43.17 with SMTP id v17mr1969775ybj.431.1285204743354; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-132-2.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.132.2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e7sm6693569ybe.4.2010.09.22.18.19.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C9AAB03.2070505@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:18:59 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100920 Gentoo/2.0.8-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 51f8a81b-e5f6-475d-b5ce-7960f69a5f58 X-Archives-Hash: 812a27f29a3cde446fc1d88386e933b4 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: >> When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following: >> >> $sudo gui-admin >> No protocol specified >> gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0 >> >> ( Assume gui-admin is an X program ) >> >> But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing. > > sudo doesn't keep the $DISPLAY environment variable by default. There > could be other issues too. Best stick to kdesu and friends; that's > what they are there for. > > Well, I noticed after the recent upgrade to 4.5.1 that mine doesn't work either. It worked before but not now. I'm not sure what changed between 4.4 and 4.5.1 but it broke my konqueror as root and other programs as well. Still have some I haven't tried tho. Konqueror is the one I need most. Oh, I can get Dolphin to work tho. The conspiracy theory part in me is starting to think. Sure would like to get this working again too. Dale :-) :-)