[Wine]DISPLAY

Joachim von Thadden thadden at web.de
Mon Apr 18 09:00:56 CDT 2005


Am Mo, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:29:47 -0700 schrieb Doug Nusbaum:
> Wine does not allow a user to run as root. - at least my version does 
> not, and there is only one other user

This is distribution specific. Your distribution does the right thing.

> >As you can see from the above it is not done with: set your DISPLAY to
> >"hello" and everything works fine. And if you are more familiar with
> >Linux you will know what to do with such an error message. And by the
> >way: Windows error messages are not really known to be very
> >comprehensive or helpful, aren't they? ;-)
> >
> No, but being the 8000 pound gorilla, they can pretty much do whatever 
> they want.

That's definitely and sadly true!

Regards
	Joachim von Thadden
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          Never run a touchy system!!!"



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