This is my first post on open-suse after changing over from Ubuntu which I have used since 8.04. I purchased a nice and new shiny SSD so I took that omen to start a new and get rid of Ubuntu which has been annoying me for a few generations now.
If I am being honest I am on my 2nd install after I messed up my nvidia driver the evening I installed, but I digress.
I installed O_S with KDE but after a week or two I was missing Gnome I decided to install Gnome 3 using Yast (which I do like alot!). However I am having certain issues that I am unsure how to fix. They are not major issues but they are annoying me none the less. When I run either sudo/kdesu I get the following error
odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options
linux-91x1:/home/odwyerda # gedit /etc/fstab
** (gedit:7535): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus
odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
kdesu: cannot connect to X server
I get around this by installing another editor such as “nano” and editing in there, but I would like to know what is wrong or if I did something wrong, is it a conflict between Gnome & KDE ? Should I remove KDE completly if I am not going to use it ?
odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Cannot open display:
Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options
On openSUSE sudo won’t work with graphical applications because it doesn’t pass over the display by default.
See below for how you could run gedit as root.
linux-91x1:/home/odwyerda # gedit /etc/fstab
** (gedit:7535): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus
I guess you’ve used ‘su’ here. That doesn’t work because of the same reasons.
odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
kdesu: cannot connect to X server
“sudo kdesu” is not working either because of above reasons.
kdesu is running the app as root anyway (and is designed to do that for graphical applications), so no need to use sudo there.
Just use:
kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
But, as you are running GNOME, you shouldn’t use ‘kdesu’.
Use ‘gnomesu’, that should work: (there’s no ‘gksu’ on a default openSUSE install)
That made me face-palm it was so obvious, once I read that I thought of gnomesu… which you say below.
I will try and read up as to why Opensuse does not pass sudo through the display. I find that curious and interesting, learning a new system has lots of new terminal quirks.
Thank you for the reply.
As for my Nvidia driver, I do not have the problem now, however when I will get around to installing bumblebee I am sure it will go wrong somewhere, but that is not for here and now.
Don’t worry!
There are differences between distributions which may not be obvious at first sight (especially regarding default settings for stuff like sudo).
I don’t know what the upstream default is for sudo; maybe Ubuntu has tweaked that a bit, or maybe openSUSE, or maybe both?
not just an username wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post on open-suse after changing over from Ubuntu
> which I have used since 8.04. I purchased a nice and new shiny SSD so I
> took that omen to start a new and get rid of Ubuntu which has been
> annoying me for a few generations now.
>
> If I am being honest I am on my 2nd install after I messed up my nvidia
> driver the evening I installed, but I digress.
>
> I installed O_S with KDE but after a week or two I was missing Gnome I
> decided to install Gnome 3 using Yast (which I do like alot!). However I
> am having certain issues that I am unsure how to fix. They are not major
> issues but they are annoying me none the less. When I run either
> sudo/kdesu I get the following error
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo gedit /etc/fstab
> Cannot open display:
> Run ‘gedit --help’ to see a full list of available command line options
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> linux-91x1:/home/odwyerda # gedit /etc/fstab
>
> ** (gedit:7535): WARNING **: Could not connect to session bus
> --------------------
>
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> odwyerda@linux-91x1:~> sudo kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab
> kdesu: cannot connect to X server
> --------------------
>
>
> I found this but to be honest I do not understand what it means and it
> is from Ubuntu so I am unsure… ‘editor - Unable to run gedit as a
> different user - Ask Ubuntu’ (http://tinyurl.com/mbm36v9)
>
> I get around this by installing another editor such as “nano” and
> editing in there, but I would like to know what is wrong or if I did
> something wrong, is it a conflict between Gnome & KDE ? Should I remove
> KDE completly if I am not going to use it ?
>
>
> Thank you in advance for any advice or help
>
> Dave
>
>
Since you installed KDE first and then GNOME there is high chance that
you might be using KDM to login into GOME.Ensure that you have switched
to GDM before removing KDE. If you can spare half a gig let KDE stay
around. When 13.1 comes out do a fresh install with GNOME 3.8 which supposedly has GNOME classic.
On 08/07/2013 11:06 PM, not just an username wrote:
> I will try and read up as to why Opensuse does not pass sudo through
> the display.
there are lots of differences between openSUSE (not Opensuse, not
OpenSUSE, not openSuSE, etc) and Ubuntu…some of them are available
for your enlightenment here:
