Joe(theWordy)Philbrook said the following on 09/28/2011 01:30 PM:
Can anybody tell me how to fix this?
I had a similar-but-different problem a while ago. I was using Konsole with a tab that did a "su" to root and it would not run yast2 as a GUI. Someone suggested I tried to ssh to localhost as root. Adjustments to the sshd config were needed but that worked. It seems that the "su" drops the DISPLAY settings and the subsequent shell does not know its running in an X terminal window. So you get the curses version. Hmm. "Obvious" once you know about it, eh? Or you could try su --preserve-environment -c /sbin/yast2 which I came across when I read the MAN page for 'su'. MAN pages are always fun reads :-) -- The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. --Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org