minor question ....

[Gary Aitken]

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 at kabini1, /etc, 3:45:35pm] 325 % ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn
> -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & ) 
> rxvt: No match. [root at kabini1, /etc, 3:45:42pm] 326 % which rxvt 
> /usr/local/bin/rxvt [root at 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 at kabini1, /etc, 3:53:56pm] 328 %
> 
> also tried:
> 
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 3:54:49pm] 329 % ( rxvt  & ) [root at kabini1,
> /etc, 3:55:21pm] 330 % No protocol specified rxvt: can't open display
> :0
> 
> [root at 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"