Yast2

[Alma J Wetzker]

Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:46:25 -0500
> David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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
>>>
>>>--
>>>Rick Sivernell
>>>Dallas, Texas  75287
>>>972 306-2296
>>>res005ru at verizon.net
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>
>>David A. Bandel
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> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
>    I did just as you suggested and it did not work on this machine. Rest
> assured any words of wisdom from you are taken very seriously and 99.9%
> of the time I implemient them, the other .01% is non-existant. I have
> actually put the suggested changes in /etc/profile. Now if that is
> wrong, I will stand corrected, I did try it in the terminal window
> also. At that time I would do anything to get it working.

I suspect that sux also executes 'xhost' in addition to setting DISPLAY.  It 
may do more but somehow it puts all the little pieces together to make it 
work.  QUESTION:  Is 'sux' a script?  Can you post it?

     -- Alma