Re: Annoying problem with GTK apps
In article <[🔎] 1112977422.10124.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>,
Aurélien Campéas <aurelien.campeas@uni.lu> wrote:
>Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 18:12 +0200, Piero Piutti a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> I have recently moved to Debian Sarge from "another" distro and I like it a
>> lot, besides a few problems that I'm trying to fix on the way.
>>
>> One of these is one related to GTK apps: every time I try to run one from the
>> console as root
>
>you mean from xterm or gnome-terminal
>
>> I receive the same error. For istance, if I try to run
>> Synaptics this happens:
>>
>> adam:~# synaptic
>>
>> (synaptic:17058): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
>this is a security feature ; to disable it, as "normal" user, type
>"xhost +", then proceed as root
It's a bad, bad idea to disable security features like these.
Mike.
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