[Sussex] Newcomer

[Dave Chapman]

On Tuesday 20 September 2005 10:54, Steve Dobson wrote:

>
> If you're going to be using a graphical program then before using "su -"
> one needs to first run the command "xhost +".  This allows any user to
> put a graphical window upon the user's display.  If you don't use "su -"
> but just "su" then the user's environment is still in place and his
> graphic authority is being used.
>
> Once you have "su -"ed then you also need to issue the command:
>    export DISPLAY=:0.0
> in order for the graphics programs to know where to put their displays.
>
>
> Steve

With SuSE you use the command "sux" you don't need 
 export DISPLAY=:0.0

yast is ncurses based
yast2 is the gui version