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Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird



On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:03:52 +1200
Joel Peter William Pitt <joel.pitt@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am confused however, since I'm reasonably sure I haven't tinkered with my
> Xauthority files - ie they are the debian default - and yet synaptic has no
> problem running from su.

Running startx from a text log in or using GDM as my session manager
running xterm --> su --> synaptic works fine. Running with some other
display managers (KDM for example) doing the same thing fails. 

Later, Seeker



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