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 1OyUOk-0003c5-6w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:50:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE606E0D38; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0B9E0D38 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb18 with SMTP id 18so841590wwb.10 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:49:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=vFb8DFzmxS4tPNQuybGpTmxtOpoIbutrYH+mizk3QmU=; b=q0JlNy3k3Dk3j5qrV67X1P0vAq2r3j7UFobXUAHArHC00QAtW2Rpmhl2JtEOy7tHX8 nVZKBMZxUlNwbKRA0H/ZBS3Ptk71I2kG7WFMDJUoyJWKH+CjeJ2PDveUiUexw9hy5/W9 d095aEMoQ8ssBcuSC4A13z0JJHhQwl8E9fMuo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=oClY1pS0Cw2xIC9dPnN61TYPsNgNw1g6B6LuJm64GymgIw/kxHdS2h7RMk0PymoDmY 5Fp6oRB5E8tqE92IAgC5PphV6iVLU2q5ialiHUMIzT1VFXL1FJnedJZBmQwZ5IJPvUm4 4zKETk45mZYB3DGAqHDbAFNUfLm4c15AEo9dk= Received: by 10.216.8.138 with SMTP id 10mr7355492wer.57.1285181356760; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:49:16 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.216.209.27 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:48:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrey Vul Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:48:56 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] X programs as root To: gentoo-user Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 4abf6203-457d-43bc-aabc-ce7393730a35 X-Archives-Hash: 13bb75803b55c973deb346ced781ef89 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. -- Andrey "m05hbear" Vul