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

[Daniel Walker]

I don't know what the problem is with xhost, but

kdesu kwrite

appears to work in the meantime, if that's any use. Apologies if you've
already tried that.

Dan


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:58:24 +0000, "Anne Wilson"
<cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> said:
> 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?
> 
> Anne
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