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.
next prev 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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