Yast2

[Richard R. Sivernell]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:51:52 +0100
Jesus Gonzalez <jgjnet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 06:46:25 -0500, David Bandel  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?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > 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.
> >
> 
> You are right, sux is a shell script that sets the DISPLAY and forward
> X authentication (actually, this is the real problem if you only set
> the DISPLAY):
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # /usr/X11R6/bin/sux    A shell script to forward X authentication
> #                       and run `su - root [options]'
> #
> # Note: sux is the abbrivation of `Substitute User with X11'
> #
> # Usage: sux [-c command] [-s shell] [-|-l] [[user] args]
> #
> # Copyright 2000 SuSE GmbH
> # Copyright 2004 SuSE LINUX AG
> # Author: Werner Fink <werner at suse.de>
> 
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> Jes?s Gonz?lez
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Jesus

  This was good info, I will look at it more closely.

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