[Gllug] can't switch between virtual terminals

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Mon Aug 4 18:25:26 UTC 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:01:31PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Ben Whyte wrote:
> 
> > > a (related?) problem is that I can't start X apps from root's xterm
> > 
> > If you get a solution to this it would be kind of useful.
> 
> How were you getting this root xterm in the first place?
> If via su then there might be an issue with MIT magic cookies not being
> setup properly in there - which distribution and under what situation?
> I do not seem to have encountered the original message yet.

use a threaded email client jon ;-) he uses debian, and its woody 

Ian

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