su from root to user and gui applications

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:57, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:

> gui applications a root. but if i then as root su -l to another user, i
> cannot

The -l or - makes a shell a login shell, which means it also gets its own 
environment.
Thus DISPLAY is not set yet, thus X applications assume local :0

You could try also using -m to preserve the enironment
(see man su for details)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtforum.org
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