[OpenIndiana-discuss] su improvement request to export user DISPLAY

Dmitry Kozhinov dima at desktopfay.com
Thu Feb 16 21:04:29 UTC 2012


I may be wrong, but have you tried issuing the su command without "-" 
parameter?
IMHO "su -" and just "su" behave reversely different in Linux and OI.

Dmitry.

 > When system admin su to root and launch X 11 utilities (for exemple 
system-config-printer)
 > or java application (for exemple OpenOffice ./setup) they get 
something like that :
 > # xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s xterm: DISPLAY is not set



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