* Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I've tried starting yast2 from an "xterm" (actually a "konsole" window, {konsole being one of the few KDE apps I still use in spite of kde4}):
emblishment irrelivant
I've done this in three ways with different results:
su -c /sbin/yast2
which yields over 300 lines of stderr (see http://pastebin.com/AgwCap3W ) and no yast of any kind...
sudo /sbin/yast2
which actually starts the curses version in the current konsole window...
But if I open a root shell first:
su -
yast2
I get only about 9 lines of stderr (see http://pastebin.com/CwJtbKLS ) before the gui yast2 control center does actually open a functional window.
This bothers me because I much prefer to use either: 'su -c "command arglist"' or 'sudo command arglist' to start an admin level gui than to leave an open root shell that I might forget to close hanging around.
It bothers you that the incorrect commandline will not provide the function you wish? su - -c yast2 works for me from a user prompt in xterm and/or konsole
And of course because there should be a working yast menu choice in the gui menu on an OpenSuSE system, shouldn't there???
there is!
Can anybody tell me how to fix this?
use the correct command ps: really, your personal habits/needs/wants/desires are not necessary to ask why a particular command does not work for you, and detract immensely from your real question; ie: wordy is not necessary. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org