Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:54:18 +0200 From: Datasmurf <datasmurf@mail.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim Message-ID: <20170725205418.5174338c08d8822563c5c025@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <a973035703bd510d1226163df5ac9a34.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <a973035703bd510d1226163df5ac9a34.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:39:29 -0400 "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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? Hello, yes you have to export the $DISPLAY in your root shell envoirment. If you still use the default csh, then setenv DISPLAY :0 or with bash export DISPLAY=:0 But you have to authorize applications to connect to your Display/Xserver with ( pkg install xhost ) xhost +local: before it will work. Hope that helps you. bye daniel -- #irc - real netizens last resort
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