On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov wrote:
> Steve C wrote:
> >
> > What you are missing I think, is the env variable display.
> > With RH 5.1 / Xfree 3.2.2I have never needed this, but at
> > work Sun Solaris, DEC need the environment variable DISPLAY set
>
> env reported that DISPLAY is set to :0.0 -
> anyway xemacs refuses to start in xterm that is
> su-ed to root... And it starts OK from xterm not
> su-ed...
Does su copy the environment variables? IIRC it doesn't.
Frank
> Well, not that it is a big problem - I can live with
> xemacs started from non-su-ed xterm, but I'm just
> curious, and I want to know more about Linux, X11,
> and Unix in general...
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> alex
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