On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 at 21:53 GMT, Haines Brown penned:
>> > I think this may be is a debian question because user can start the
>> > FileRunner file manager, but not root. When root tries, it gets the
>> > error:
>> >
>> > Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no
>> > $DISPLAY environment variable.
>>
>> You're probably using 'su -' to get to root, right?
>
> Yes, you are quite right.
>
>> explicitly set your display to whatever it's normally set to for your
>> users in root's .bashrc or .profile.
>
> I tried: "set DISPLAY teufel:0.0; export DISPLAY" /root/.profile, but
> it. My sytax probably wrong. Can I substitute "localhost" here for
> "teufel"?
>
> Haines
>
If you're logged in as a normal user, what does
env | grep DISPLAY
show you?
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