Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Barnaby Scott
this: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display What the..? I have searched for this problem and found plenty of references similar error messages, but none of it seems to apply in my case. I am not trying to run Firefox as root, I am not doing it from a remote terminal, I am

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Saifi
From: Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Sent: 18 May '06 16:45 John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Saifi
From: Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Sent: 18 May '06 16:45 John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me though: 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single command? I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Barnaby Scott
On Thu, May 18, 2006 2:51 pm, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me though: 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-18 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:59:33 +0100 (BST) Barnaby Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single command? I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and corrected, but my

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-17 Thread John Nielsen
-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display What the..? I have searched for this problem and found plenty of references similar error messages, but none of it seems to apply in my case. I am not trying to run Firefox as root, I am not doing it from a remote terminal, I am not standing

(etherape:1583): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-05-16 Thread Pirat SRIYOTHA
hi sirs, yesterday, i launched etherape to em0 nic, etherape -i em0, and got that message. before that there was no error. worse is that root can not launch any x applications except xterm, it get the same error messages. here is uname of my r51 thinkpad %uname -a FreeBSD

Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Barnaby Scott
was bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold, first attempt to use it and I get this: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display What the..? I have searched for this problem and found plenty of references similar error messages, but none of it seems

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold, first attempt to use it and I get this: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display What the..? I have searched

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Barnaby Scott
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold, first attempt to use it and I get this: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display What

Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display

2006-05-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Barnaby Scott wrote: (firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display Q: Are you running an X display at the time this message is given, or are you attempting to run Firefox from the console? I have tried both. It is running from

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Peter wrote: As mentioned in an earlier post, I tried that on my own when I ran into trouble and I have not edited this file. The default is to allow root logins. Just to be clear, FreeBSD is shipped with root logins via SSH *DISABLED*. (most Linux distros i remember, OTOH, have it

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Peter
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager. I have installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root: (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I logged in locally as a non-privileged user (who can open the program) and su'd to root. I then set my

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Карамышев Степан
Hello! You can use gtk-su. On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST) Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager. I have installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root: (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Eric Ekong
try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X then run the program Eric * Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060209 15:00]: Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST) From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Peter
@freebsd.org Subject: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager. I have installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root: (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I logged in locally as a non

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Eric Ekong
: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST) From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: --- Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X then run

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Eric Ekong
://www.mutt.org/ Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: check /etc/ssh/sshd_config there is a line that says grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~ PermitRootLogin no change that grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Peter
], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: check /etc/ssh/sshd_config there is a line that says grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~ PermitRootLogin no change

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2006-02-09 Thread Peter
yes * Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060209 15:31]: Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST) From: Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: --- Eric Ekong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try