On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 05:45:30 AM Mark Wendt did opine: > On 01/24/2012 02:21 PM, gene heskett wrote: > > I probably have 5 or 7 tabs open, su- at any one time. Biggest > > problem then is that x belongs to gene, and root collects megabytes > > of x errors when root forgets to use vim and tries to use gedit. > > Gene, is this on the pclos machine, or on the Ubuntu box? On my Ubuntu > box here at work, when I "su -", $DISPLAY is automagically set to :0 and > I can bring up gedit as root with no problems. > The pclos box Mark. Its a little odd. OTOH so is ubuntu when your first experience with linux was redhat. You can sudo gedit, but not su - or sudo -i & then run gedit, no biggie. I've used vim for 20 years, so its not like it was new to me.
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