> > Application can't initialize because it lacks display name and no > > $DISPLAY environment variable. > > Look what I just found as a new package on unstable: > > Sux is a wrapper around the standard su command which will transfer your > X credentials to the target user. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sux/ ( from http://fgouget.free.fr/sux/ > )
Thanks, but that seems a workaround more than a fix. For example, if I logged in as root, I'd be in trouble, without access to a display. I need a statement that would put the default display into root's environment. Further, when I run su root without the "-", I carry over user's environment, and so root acquires a display. I wonder what might have gone wrong to cause display to be missing for root in the first place. That is, was it the effect of a faulty new installation of debian 3.0r1 from cdrom disks, or is this a known bug? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
