Sam, SamBozo Debian User wrote:
> Pardon me I'm a newbie here so this may not be what you are looking for. > > ALT-F2 (any number from 2-6) > login as root (or as user then su to root) > start x -- :1 > > > Hope that works for you. > ... not exactly, but having a second X server running seems like a reasonable stopgap measure. By having two concurrent X window sessions running, I would not need to close down X and start another X session as root, every time I need to run some administrative task. Thanks for your help. James > Sam Morgan > > James Sinnamon wrote: > > > > Dear Debian user's, > > > > My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over > > again on this > > list (I have searced but not been able to find an answer), or if I am > > on the wrong list. > > > > When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root > > (with su - ) > > for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window > > applications. > > > > Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar > > to "... unable to open display". > > > > Previously on other distributions of Linux, I have used, as root : > > > > export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > > > > and, prior to that, as the normal user that started the X window > > session: > > > > xhost localhost > > > > This somehow doesn;t work on Debian Linux (unstable distribution). > > > > Would anybody be able to tell me why, and how to go about diagnosing the > > problem, > > or better still, what to do about it. > > > > TIA, > > > > James > > > > -- > > James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 > > PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350 > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
