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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:08:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i7dk7g$1fi$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinBaqD3JSdRveng96=htC=P_NCbgX85O2fr6LLi@mail.gmail.com>

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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 18:48 [gentoo-user] X programs as root Andrey Vul
2010-09-22 19:01 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-22 19:08 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2010-09-23  1:18   ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2010-09-24 22:24     ` Andrey Vul
2010-09-24 23:35     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-09-25  3:03       ` Dale
2010-09-25  7:43         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-09-25  9:09           ` Dale
2010-09-25  8:14         ` Yohan Pereira
2010-09-25  9:21           ` Dale
2010-09-25  9:37             ` Yohan Pereira
2010-09-25 10:18               ` Dale
2010-09-26 11:06                 ` Dale
2010-09-26 14:11                   ` Robin Atwood
2010-09-26 14:28                     ` Dale
2010-09-27 17:54       ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-10-05  5:22         ` Andrey Vul
2010-10-17 12:45           ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-10-17 13:00 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-17 13:03   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2010-10-17 15:37     ` Alan McKinnon
2010-10-17 17:13       ` Kevin O'Gorman

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