Re: Annoying problem with GTK apps
Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 20:24 +0200, Piero Piutti a écrit :
> On Friday 08 April 2005 19:14, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> >
> > export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
>
> I haven't tried this yet, but I'll let you know.
forget about that, it's useless in your case
> I know what "su -" means opposite to "su" plain and simple. I always used "su
> -" with other distros and never had a problem launching X apps this way,
broken, insecure, ("user-friendly" ?) distros
so obviously you have learnt some wrong meaning for "su -"
> while in Debian I receive the "cannot open display" error. This is why I > asked if what I am experiencing is common behaviour with Debian. It seems is
> not, so there must be something wrong with my configuration.
it *is* normal behaviour in debian (it is normal behaviour, period)
please compare the output of "env" with "su" and "su -"
then think about the *intended* meaning of "su -"
>
> Anyway, thank you very much since with your suggestions I can work around the
> problem. Nevertheless I have to investigate the reasons behind this
> mis-behaviour.
you can try to investigate the (social, commercial ?) reasons behind
other distros broken and insecure behaviour instead, that could be
interesting ... good luck :)
>
> All the best,
>
Are you making all this up as you go along?
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