Thanks,
The problem was indeed "su -". When I did "su", it worked.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: printtool
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Hidong Kim wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to run printtool on a Red Hat 6.1 machine. I'm logged into
> > an X session under my normal user account. I su to root access. When I
> > issue 'printtool' as root, I get this error:
> >
> > Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY
> > environment variable
> > Couldn't load bindings.tcl
> > Start from control-panel or set environment variable
> > CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir.
> > (normally this is /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel)
> >
> >
> > Before I su'ed, I did 'xhost +localhost'. After seeing this error
> > message, I set the variable $DISPLAY to :0.0, and $CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR
> > to /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel. printtool still gives the same error. I
> > really don't want to kill my current X session just to re-login as root
> > to run printtool. How can I run printtool without exiting my current
> > session? Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Hidong
> >
> >
> >
> In this case, you want to use "su" and not "su -" to change to root.
> That way, you still have a valid DISPLAY variable, as well as the
> correct settings to use the display. There are other ways to do it, but
> I do not know enough about xauth to walk you through setting that up.
>
> Mikkel
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