-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chinook wrote: > Yea, I had that in my Debian ref notes (6.4.4), but it doesn't seem to > work (I didn't remember till you mentioned it). After using the cli I > shutdown and rebooted. Came back up in dialog mode :-( Wondering if > there was some problem with kde I used aptitude to look and found none.
Obviously to use the KDE or Gnome frontends, debconf needs to be able to talk to your X display. If you are running dpkg-reconfigure or apt-get or whatever under a root shell in Konsole, this may not be the case, and it may be falling back to dialog. On the other hand if you're using a GUI package management tool (synaptic) then that shouldn't be a problem. If you are using root under a shell (konsole/xterm/whatever) and you do "su -" instead of just "su" then you need to set the DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY environment variables to the same settings your regular user had them set to before you did "su -". But I could be misinterpreting what you're saying, too. - -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a--->? C++(+++)$> UL++++ P++++$ L+++>++++ E--- W++ N o++ K? w--$ O M- V- PS--(---) PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R(+)>- tv-(--) b- DI+> D++ G>+++ e>++ h(--)>--- !r>+++ y->+++ - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDtkRQqlk5sZw9W7kRAldnAJ9xXk8gBgZp5c/hlVYrqIc8SmfZIACfQsL4 LFxoVt5IZYjhqYx7TTeF0D4= =LQwN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
