RE: Newbee-ish X and root question
--- "deFreese, Barry" <Barry.deFreese@nike.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lukas Latz [mailto:lukaslatz@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 11:32 AM
> > To: deFreese, Barry; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: RE: Newbee-ish X and root question
> >
> >
> > Barry,
> >
> > su -m surely does it. So what property that's carried over is it
> that
> > makes the difference?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Lukas
> >
>
> The main one is the DISPLAY=:0.0 environment variable. BTW, it
> doesn't
> bother me but some here tend to get upset when you top-post a reply.
Oops, sorry for that, I never knew..
The DISPLAY env seems to have some hidden aspects that I'll have to
read up on. When I do su (without -m) and then set DISPLAY=0:0 by hand,
it doesn't cut it.
Thanks,
Lukas
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