On 21.02.08, M-L wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, bigblop shared this with us all:
> > When I start LyX from a shell it starts in root mode, is this what its > > meant to do? Not really (if you do not start it from a root account or with sudo). To see if it is really owned by root, have a look at the list of processes. > If you start it from a root shell, and have it display on the users X > server. ... > You should get an error message: > # lyx > lyx: cannot connect to X server > But that might not be the case if using KDE or something like that? There is no need for KDE to enable the display of root owned applications on X, just run `xhost +localhost`. (I assume that `kdesu` does this internally.) Guenter
