On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:37:28 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote:
> did you start the X session as root? > > it's important to differentiate between having permission to write to an > X display (xhost permits that) and knowing which display to write to - > $DISPLAY will be set to that if you're already in the 'X environment' > (it's an environment variable). However, if you su or something, you'll > no longer have that environment variable. I was using su and so was losing that environment variable :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gtkpod [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ which brings up gtkpod correctly. Thank you, pardon I had no idea that I was leaving out relevant information. -Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
