Re: sudo in X-environment
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:51:21AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop.
>
> Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do
> about it other than logging into the xserver as root - which I do not want
> to do:
>
> $ sudo system-config-printer
>
> No protocol specified
> error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment.
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
> No protocol specified
>
xhost +
sudo system-config-printer
xhost - # don't forget to do it after you're done with system-config-printer
>
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