Dear Debian user's,
My apologies for a question that should have been answered over and over
again on this
list (I have searced but not been able to find an answer), or if I am
on the wrong list.
When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root
(with su - )
for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window
applications.
Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar
to "... unable to open display".
Previously on other distributions of Linux, I have used, as root :
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
and, prior to that, as the normal user that started the X window
session:
xhost localhost
This somehow doesn;t work on Debian Linux (unstable distribution).
Would anybody be able to tell me why, and how to go about diagnosing the
problem,
or better still, what to do about it.
TIA,
James
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