On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:57, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > gui applications a root. but if i then as root su -l to another user, i > cannot The -l or - makes a shell a login shell, which means it also gets its own environment. Thus DISPLAY is not set yet, thus X applications assume local :0 You could try also using -m to preserve the enironment (see man su for details) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx> Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org
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