Re: Simple little basic config questions

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

> >   Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no
> >   $DISPLAY environment variable. 
> 
> Look what I just found as a new package on unstable:
> 
> Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your
> X credentials to the target user.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/
> )

Thanks, but that seems a workaround more than a fix. For example, if I
logged in as root, I'd be in trouble, without access to a display. I
need a statement that would put the default display into root's
environment. 

Further, when I run su root without the "-", I carry over user's
environment, and so root acquires a display.

I wonder what might have gone wrong to cause display to be missing for
root in the first place. That is, was it the effect of a faulty new
installation of debian 3.0r1 from cdrom disks, or is this a known bug?

Haines Brown