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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
  @ 2005-07-06  6:44 99%   ` W.Kenworthy
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From: W.Kenworthy @ 2005-07-06  6:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Thanks, thats the hint I needed.  "env_reset" was spoiling things.
Enabling the exception for the wheel group fixed it safely.

BillK

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:00 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 05:07 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy:
> 
> > After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no
> > longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via
> > su in an xterm work fine).
> 
> Can you check if $DISPLAY is set correctly after sudo? If not, look up 
> env_keep, env_reset settings in /etc/sudoers. See man sudoers for details.
> 
> HTH...
> 
> 	Dirk

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