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Re: Annoying problem with GTK apps



Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 18:12 +0200, Piero Piutti a écrit :
> Hi,
> I have recently moved to Debian Sarge from "another" distro and I like it a 
> lot, besides a few problems that I'm trying to fix on the way.
> 
> One of these is one related to GTK apps: every time I try to run one from the 
> console as root

you mean from xterm or gnome-terminal

>  I receive the same error. For istance, if I try to run 
> Synaptics this happens:
> 
> adam:~# synaptic
> 
> (synaptic:17058): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

this is a security feature ; to disable it, as "normal" user, type
"xhost +", then proceed as root




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