[ale] frontend: Dialog ?

David Tomaschik ozone at webgroup.org
Mon Oct 8 12:36:43 EDT 2007


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon October 8 2007 10:10 am, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>   
>> If you had an X tunnel working for X windows on the user you initially
>> logged in as via ssh you can make this available to the root user after
>> you su  or sudo su:
>>
>> export XAUTHORITY=~<originaluser>/.Xauthority
>>
>> That lets it use the tunnel you'd already established for the original
>> user.
>>     
>
> no it is my box, and all I did was open a terminal window and do "su"
> I keep one of those windows open most times...
>
> #  export XAUTHORITY=~pbc/.Xauthority
> paulandcilla:~# dpkg-reconfigure dpkg
> dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> debconf: (DISPLAY problem?)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> paulandcilla:~#
>
>   
Did you also export "DISPLAY"?

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