On Mon, Jan 26, 2004, Aaron wrote about "Re: no display": > I often need to fix a readonly or system file and out of habit use gvim. > Or I want to run Synaptic which I think needs me to be su. > In Fedora, Redhat or Mandrake I never had this problem. > > This only happens in Debian/Xandros
As a general advice, instead of using "su", you might want to try using "su -p". This will keep all your variables, including the HOME (and the DISPLAY, if you have it). > I did think that I needed to run xev as root to see if the events were > systemwide, maybe not. Indeed, you don't need to run it as root. As I explained, root has no special previleges when it comes to the X servers. The original user who logged in (assuing xdm is used, like is normal on all modern Linux distributions) has full priveleges over the X server, including watching the stream of X events (which is what xev shows you). -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Jan 26 2004, 3 Shevat 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A computer program does what you tell it http://nadav.harel.org.il |to do, not what you want it to do. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
