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Date:      Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To:        Eric Ekong <eric@unixtechs.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Message-ID:  <20060209203133.64525.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060209201839.GO32776@blackguy>

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--- Eric Ekong <eric@unixtechs.org> wrote:

> try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X
> then run the program
> 
> Eric
> * Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> [060209 15:00]:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
> > To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > 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.


	

	
		
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