[Wylug-discuss] Launching an editor as root in kde

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 06 Jan 2006 16:58, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I'm finding that I can't launch kwrite or any other editor within a
> root konqueror file-manager window.  This has often happened to me in
> the past, and I've normally cured it by issuing 'xhost +localhost",
> but this gives me 'xhost: unable to open display " " '
>
> Any idea what the problem is, please?
>
Logging out and in again cured it, but I'd still like to know what 
caused it, if anyone knows.

Anne
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