Hello
John Harrold (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Sometime in April Markus Lindström assaulted the keyboard and
> produced:
>
> | I have another problem. I've installed KDE, and I've installed
> | Synaptic. The problem that occurs is that I can only launch Synaptic
> | if I've logged in as root, it doesn't work even if I've used 'su' in
> | a Konsole session on my own account. It seems X can only generate
> | the windows if I'm logged in as root.
>
> are you sure you exported your display as root and xhosted the
> computer?
>
> #as root:
> export DISPLAY=localhost:0
>
> #as a normal user:
> xhost +localhost
Instead, you could try this:
export XAUTHORITY=/home/markus/.Xauthority
If su doesn't open a login shell (su -), DISPLAY is already set.
> also, have you tried sshing to the computer with xforwarding?
>
> ssh -X localhost
>
> you might have to change the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>
> #from:
> X11Forwarding no
>
> #to:
> X11Forwarding yes
This should work, but for KDE users, there is much better way. Simply
run
kdesu synaptic
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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