Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Andre Truter <andre.truter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 11:00, Richard Bos wrote:
> 
> I assume that you're launching synaptic from the kde menu?
> 
Nope, I launced it from a root terminal, but in the background, with
'synaptic &'.
> 
> Try to launch it from the command line, e.g. as follows:
> xhost +; su -c "DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/sbin/synaptic"; xhost -
>  
> Does this work better?

Yup, this works.  :-)

I saw that method on the apt for SuSE web page, but I am much more
clever than those guys..... NOT!!

(In Afrikaans we have a saying for people like me:  "Slim vang sy baas"
- meaning that if you think you are the boss of clever, that
'cleverness' will catch up with you and bite you)

I suppose synaptic needs to be bound to the terminal is was launched
from.

Thanks!

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Andre Truter
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