Yast2

[David Bandel]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 23:17:47 -0600, Richard R. Sivernell
<res005ru at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 02 Nov 2004 22:33:17 -0500
> 
> 
> burns <linux at burnsmacdonald.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 08:54, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> > > Well, I have reinstalled Suse 9 on my system and setup with xfce as
> > > window manager. modified /etc/Suseconfig/profile and
> > > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to use xfce. All runs very nicely. When I try
> > > to yast2 I get only the text mode version.
> >
> > Just curious - How are you opening YaST2?
> >
> > --
> > burns
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> Burns
> 
>    I got a post from one of the list here, sux - root, then yast2 runs
> in a gui. That works great for me now. I think that tidbit might need to
> be on the steps some where. with out sux .... using just su I got the
> text version of yast2. If I logged in as root from the login, then all
> works fine.

I'll say it just one more time:
YOU HAVE TO SET THE DISPLAY ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE!
export DISPLAY=:0 or export DISPLAY=LOCALHOST:0.0
one of the above will work.

sux is a SUSEism (shell script?) that probably sets your display
environment variable for you.

> 
> cheers
> 
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> Rick Sivernell
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