kdesu vs gksu and alternatives
On Sunday 06 March 2005 10:48, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> You do not happen to run the program as root while running X as another
> user, do you? If that is the case, type
>
> export XAUTHORITY=/home/hsrai/.Xauthority
>
> or use some wrapper like gksu, kdesu or sux to run the program, if it
> needs to be run as another use than the one that opened the X session.
On that note... am I the only one who would prefer their su program to use the
alternatives system? So that, for example, running synaptic on a KDE could
use kdesu, rather than gksu? I know it can be done manually, but it seems
silly for menu entries to make such assumptions.
--
Lee.
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