On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 at 18:34 GMT, Haines Brown penned: > I have more elementary configuration questions arising from my > transition from RedHat to debian. Sorry to be a pest. > > I think this may be is a debian question because user can start the > FileRunner file manager, but not root. When root tries, it gets the > error: > > Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no > $DISPLAY environment variable. > > Error stgartup script: can't read "tk_patchLevel": No such variable > while executing. > > How do I interpret these? In fact, if I try # echo $DISPLAY, nothing > is returned, which means the root account is not configured properly, > I'd guess. It would make sense to define the value of DISPLAY > globally, I should think. If so, how does one do that? > > The second part of the error statement would seem to be a script > error, where the value of tk_patchLevel is never defined, but since > user can run the application OK, I assume the problem is deeper than > that. Could it be the missing DISPLAY? > > Haines Brown >
Look what I just found as a new package on unstable: Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your X credentials to the target user. http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ ) -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
