On Monday 26 April 2010 19:59:26 Dale wrote: > walt wrote: > > On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it > >> on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this > >> little error message: > >> > >> r...@smoker / # elogviewer > >> No protocol specified > >> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: > >> GtkWarning: could not open display > > > > Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? > > Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup > a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: > > No protocol specified > hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set > this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it "just works". I'm > on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a "feature" of KDE4 until it gets > "fixed". ;-)
The X server is running at Dale and you are trying to connect to it as root. It (correctly) disapproves of this and is telling you so, while still remaining polite. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
