9 May
2003
9 May
'03
13:42
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 09:36, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2003 08:01, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Try setting your DISPLAY variable: su export DISPLAY=localhost:
I tried that, but it didn't anything for me. Here's what happened:
Photon:/backups/differential # export Display=localhost:0.0 Photon:/backups/differential # emacs Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
The proper procedure is: as logged in user issue xhost +localhost su export DISPLAY=localhost:0 Then you should be able to run your commands as the root user -- Ken Schneider linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998