Re: Annoying problem with GTK apps
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:42 +0200, Piero Piutti a écrit :
> On Friday 08 April 2005 18:29, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > You're running applications from the console and expect that they
> > be started in your X enviroment ?
> > Do you mean "a terminal emulator" such as xterm instead of console?
>
> Sorry, my fault. I meant a terminal emulator such as konsole.
>
> > In that case, how are you getting a root prompt ? If you use "su",
> > try "su -m" - that keeps the environent, and homedir, and thus
> > the X credentials.
>
> This works, but I would like to understand why it doesn't if I type "su -" as
> I am used to. Is this behaviour normal in Debian?
read the manual page, it says :
OPTIONS
- utilise un interpréteur de commandes initial « login shell »
(translated : "uses an initial command interpreter 'login shell'")
this forbids root to inherit the current user environment
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Piero Piutti
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>
>
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