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! -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->