[ale] Wifi-radar
Björn Gustafsson
bg-ale at bjorng.net
Thu Sep 6 11:35:15 EDT 2007
On 9/6/07, Jim Moore <j9916moore at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> to run the first time as root. Went to console did "su -, the entered
> root pwd and then wifi-radar".
> RuntimeError: could not open display
When you say "console", do you mean like Ctrl-Alt-F1 console? That
would explain why it couldn't open the display. Even if you're
running in a GTerm or similar, your su shell won't have the right
$XAUTHORITY, $DISPLAY et al in its environment.
--
Bj?rn Gustafsson
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