`su -`gives root's $PATH and environment variables.
`su` (no hyphen!) gives root permissions but inherits $PATH and environment variables.
You might want to give the latter a go.
On Sep 13, 2011 10:09 AM, "mcforum" <mcforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these
>>teething troubles don't discourage you.
>
> Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune. This protecting me from
> myself is getting terribly frustrating. I want to do work not continually chase
> the user interface. I was happy with fvwm but it has become moribund.
>
>
> KDE3 worked fine but KDE4 is awful. I switched to GNOME now leaving for xfce4.
>
>
> Along the way the administration of my systems is gone. A terminal session
> switched to root with "su -" can't start a program needing the display reliably
> no matter which desktop is used. Analogous to kdesu, single programs can be
> started with sudo but an xterm started that way cannot start a next level gui
> program. Sometimes the DISPLAY variable can be reset and get the "su -" root
> session to inherit the display. A real hassle when trying to compile, install
> and debug. Even CENTOS is following the pack.
>
>
> Robert McBroom
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>> As with most things, it's easy when you know the tricks. I hope these
>>teething troubles don't discourage you.
>
> Teething Troubles--It's like climbing up a sand dune. This protecting me from
> myself is getting terribly frustrating. I want to do work not continually chase
> the user interface. I was happy with fvwm but it has become moribund.
>
>
> KDE3 worked fine but KDE4 is awful. I switched to GNOME now leaving for xfce4.
>
>
> Along the way the administration of my systems is gone. A terminal session
> switched to root with "su -" can't start a program needing the display reliably
> no matter which desktop is used. Analogous to kdesu, single programs can be
> started with sudo but an xterm started that way cannot start a next level gui
> program. Sometimes the DISPLAY variable can be reset and get the "su -" root
> session to inherit the display. A real hassle when trying to compile, install
> and debug. Even CENTOS is following the pack.
>
>
> Robert McBroom
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