Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:58:18 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <ah@dreamchaser.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor question .... Message-ID: <5414BDFA.2040905@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <5414AF66.80606@hiwaay.net> References: <5414AF66.80606@hiwaay.net>
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On 09/13/14 14:56, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > .... I usually have long login sessions (weeks, maybe months), 99% of > which are spent in rxvt shells, either on this machine or logged into > other boxen on my LAN. I login as regular user. On 1 desktop, I open > an rxvt session, su to root, then (try to) duplicate that shell using > the following CLI commands: > > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:35pm] 325 % ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn > -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) > rxvt: No match. [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:42pm] 326 % which rxvt > /usr/local/bin/rxvt [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:49pm] 327 % ( > /usr/local/bin/rxvt -sl 5000 -fn > -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) > /usr/local/bin/rxvt: No match. [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:53:56pm] 328 % > > also tried: > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:54:49pm] 329 % ( rxvt & ) [root@kabini1, > /etc, 3:55:21pm] 330 % No protocol specified rxvt: can't open display > :0 > > [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:55:23pm] 330 % > > > This worked AOK under FC14, apropos of little, but doesn't work under > FBSD 9.3 .... Any clues as to why not ? It save me a bunch of > clicking the rxvt icon, clicking the maximize button on the new > window, & su-ing to root (3 steps instead of 1, grrrrr ....) .... > obviously not show stopping, but irritating .... Same problem as > regular user .... Any clues appreciated .... As I recall, I had a similar problem once. Not sure this will do it but try "su -l"
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