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Re: xhost+ and Konsole



El Viernes, 14 de Enero de 2005 12:46, Charles de Miramon escribió:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running an uptodate KDE in Sid and I've noticed a small regression /
> bug in Konsole that have appeared lately.
>
> When I open a Konsole and type xhost+ and then open a second root tab in
> Konsole. I'm unable to start from this Konsole X applications as root.
> However, when I type in a Konsole xhost+ and then type su to become root. I
> can launch X applications from this Konsole.

This could be related to setting the DISPLAY variable.
What happens if after you do xhost+ and create a new tab for root, you set the 
DISPLAY variable :

# export DISPLAY=:0

and launch the X applications ?

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