FreeBSD-11, Mate, Terminal, Gvim

[James B. Byrne]

On Tue, July 25, 2017 15:06, Polytropon wrote:

>
> 2. Use "su -m" instead, which will preserve the environment of
>    your user, and $DISPLAY will be kept set.
>

Thank you.  The second option works perfectly well for my purposes.

I had been using sudo su -l for decades on CentOS.  It did not occur
to me that the behaviour might be different on FreeBSD.  Well, it did
actually, I just could not see how that would affect this.

Thanks again.

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