[ale] Wifi-radar

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:22 -0400, Jim Moore wrote:
> Have had radar running successfully before, but think that was under 
> FC6  Wanted go take the laptop out yesterday and discovered I don't have 
> it since I'm now running Etch.
> Used synaptic and installed, but can't get it to run.  Instructions are 
> to run the first time as root.  Went to console did "su -, the entered 
> root pwd and then wifi-radar".
> Got the following return:
> 
> debian:~# wifi-radar
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1889, in ?
>     import gtk, gobject
>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 
> 45, in ?
>     from _gtk import *
> RuntimeError: could not open display

As your userid, run "xhost localhost", then "echo $DISPLAY".

Then su - root, and run "export DISPLAY=<value from above>"

-Jim P.