Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:39:29 -0400 From: "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim Message-ID: <a973035703bd510d1226163df5ac9a34.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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I recently replaced my CentOS-6 based workstation with a FreeBSD-11
system running the Mate desktop. Behavior of this environment differs
somewhat from what I am used to and I have run into one such situation
where this difference is a real inconvenience.
I log into my personal workstation with my personal, unprivileged
account. I then run startx to get the mate desktop. My preferred
editor is vim and more particularly gvim.
When setting up new hosts I usually open an especially coloured
terminal instance and use 'su -l' to become root. I also typically
edit using gvim. However, this combination does not work for me on
FreeBSD with Mate as it did for me under CentOD-6 and Gnome2. When
inside a terminal window as root instead of opening an Xwindow editor
when running gvim I get a 'E233: cannot open display' error.
Is there some configuration step that I am required to perform to get
this to work as I formerly experienced?
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