Hey all, I'm getting a gtk error when I try to run gnuradio-companion as
root. Error message below.

File "/usr/bin/gnuradio-companion", line 97, in <module>
    check_gtk()
  File "/usr/bin/gnuradio-companion", line 64, in check_gtk
    die(err, "Failed to initialize GTK. If you are running over ssh, "
  File "/usr/bin/gnuradio-companion", line 42, in die
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
69, in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
57, in _init
    warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
gtk.GtkWarning: could not open display


The instructions on the github repo I'm working from indicate that I should
be running this as root, so I do think it's necessary. Any ideas on how to
fix this?



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Eamon Heaney
*Fleet Commander*
*President, Model UN at Virginia Tech*
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