Re: No protocol specified, cannot open display error
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Lorenzo<lory.fulgi@infinito.it> wrote:
> Well, googling "no protocol specified cannot open display" gave me a hint:
> are you trying to run gedit with root privilege, as in "sudo gedit
> /etc/apt/sources.list" (or /boot/grub/menu.lst or whatever)?
> If that's the case, you can:
> 1) try some of the solutions that google suggests
> 2) use kdesu/kdesudo, they are made specifically for the case where you need
> to use a program with a gui AND be root; in gnome they are called
> gtksu/gtksudo, but they do exactly the same thing
> Hope it helps...
Hi,
Thanks for the help! I don't try to run programs as root. This even
happens as a regular user. That being said I must note that this
problem hasn't happened in a while.
Reply to: