Piero Piutti wrote (08-04-2005 18:12):
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 I receive the same error. For istance, if I try to run Synaptics this happens:adam:~# synaptic (synaptic:17058): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Instead of using su use "ssh root@localhost" and allow X11Forwarding. That will allow you to run X-programs in your terminal as root.
-- René Seindal (rene@seindal.dk) Seindal Consult