Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

[Eric Ekong]

try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X
then run the program

Eric
* Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> [060209 15:00]:
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
> From: Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca>
> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at 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?
> 
> 
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