Re: Simple little basic config questions

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> > I think this may be is a debian question because user can start the
> > FileRunner file manager, but not root. When root tries, it gets the
> > error:
> > 
> >   Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no
> >   $DISPLAY environment variable. 
> 
> You're probably using 'su -' to get to root, right?

Yes, you are quite right. 
 
> explicitly set your display to whatever it's normally
> set to for your users in root's .bashrc or .profile.

I tried: "set DISPLAY teufel:0.0; export DISPLAY" /root/.profile, but
it. My sytax probably wrong. Can I substitute "localhost" here for
"teufel"?  
 
Haines