Re: sudo in X-environment
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Артур Истомин <art.istom@yandex.ru> wrote:
> 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
If you're going to use xhost, use "xhost +SI:localuser:root" not "xhost +".
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