Re: Still having weird issues with Gtk...
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 07:20:26AM -0600, camilo@cancun.com wrote:
> Me previous request was that when su'ing to root, i could not
> execute some graphical programs, with a Gtk error, i was told
> about xauthorities, and did some tweaking with some success; i
> put the Xauthority line in .bashrc, and after doing su, i did the xauth
> merge ~user/.Xauthority ... this worked when i did "su", but it did
> not work with su -.
Don't use 'su -' in that situation, then - it sets up a fresh
environment, and will therefore lose the X authority information you set
up.
(Personally, I 'export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority', and then use sudo
to gain root privileges when I need them.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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