From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 20:31:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8930B16A422 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:31:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60017.mail.yahoo.com (web60017.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD46D43D53 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:31:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 64528 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Feb 2006 20:31:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=OqGMi0HFAhi9yuwfWoQpQgqKpfwAXbhg9I+crkBdeswyuIGIIVuigjN8dSKuxvqnLi1THlR1f9qm9YfK2YDSvX38HrjPOSH5BGXmfrh9beQj+Wc9uFQSmfdzh1zs9ME7D5Ju6MWDT9h2PWZV1WsI1HzxbeX4mtGsWCmpB3zRcMQ= ; Message-ID: <20060209203133.64525.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.84.55] by web60017.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:31:33 EST Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: Eric Ekong , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060209201839.GO32776@blackguy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:31:36 -0000 --- Eric Ekong wrote: > try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X > then run the program > > Eric > * Peter [060209 15:00]: > > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST) > > From: Peter > > To: freebsd-questions > > Subject: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > > > Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager. I > have > > installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root: > > > > (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > > > I logged in locally as a non-privileged user (who can open the > program) > > and su'd to root. I then set my DISPLAY variable: > > > > # DISPLAY=LOCALHOST:0.0 > > > > Here are the programs (mysql-administrator calls > mysql-administrator-bin): > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 546B Feb 8 03:10 > > /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql-administrator > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2.3M Feb 8 03:10 > > /usr/X11R6/bin/mysql-administrator-bin > > > > What should I do? I tried the X11 forwarding but my password for root is not being accepted. __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca