As I begin to define my operations as root, I appreciate the need to move
as quickly as possible to be a user. I find that transition difficult be-
cause of environment definitions.
One seems to have to do with DISPLAY=:0.0. For example, root can run xman
just fine, but when user tries, the result is: "Can't open display."
Also, root gets a nice emacs window which I've configured to my taste, but
when emacs is run by user, it is displayed not in an emacs window, but in
nxterm.
I can't find file where the DISPLAY variable seen in the printenv command
is set for root, and so I have no clue where to set it for user or even if
this is my problem.
A similar difficulty is that I set my destop color to what I want with the
xsetroot command, but the man pages are not much help where to place that
statement so that the customization appears automatically each time I boot.
My experiments sticking the command line into various files has not worked,
and I'm afraid of playing such games. The man pages typically refer to files
that don't exist or are not where it thinks they are.
I'm running RH 5.2.
Haines Brown
