Re: no display

[Aaron]

Nadav Har'El wrote:

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).
 

ok sound good

 

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).


Wow thanks I just learned a bunch of new tricks.

:)>
Aaron


 



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