On 09/23/2010 04:18 AM, Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/22/2010 09:48 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
When I launch X programs via sudo, I get the following:
$sudo gui-admin
No protocol specified
gui-admin: cannot connect to X server :0
( Assume gui-admin is an X program )
But (gk|kde)su(do)? works. This is somewhat confusing.
sudo doesn't keep the $DISPLAY environment variable by default. There
could be other issues too. Best stick to kdesu and friends; that's
what they are there for.
Well, I noticed after the recent upgrade to 4.5.1 that mine doesn't work
either. It worked before but not now. I'm not sure what changed between
4.4 and 4.5.1 but it broke my konqueror as root and other programs as
well. Still have some I haven't tried tho. Konqueror is the one I need
most. Oh, I can get Dolphin to work tho. The conspiracy theory part in
me is starting to think.
Sure would like to get this working again too.
Again, use kdesu, not sudo.
But if some reason you want sudo, /etc/sudoers has some info:
## Run X applications through sudo
Read the comments there and uncomment what suits you. Did I mention
that you should use kdesu instead of sudo? :-P
