[ale] Wifi-radar

[Jim Moore]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 11:22 -0400, Jim Moore wrote:
>> Have had radar running successfully before, but think that was under 
>> FC6  Wanted go take the laptop out yesterday and discovered I don't have 
>> it since I'm now running Etch.
>> Used synaptic and installed, but can't get it to run.  Instructions are 
>> to run the first time as root.  Went to console did "su -, the entered 
>> root pwd and then wifi-radar".
>> Got the following return:
>>
>> debian:~# wifi-radar
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 1889, in ?
>>     import gtk, gobject
>>   File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 
>> 45, in ?
>>     from _gtk import *
>> RuntimeError: could not open display
> 
> As your userid, run "xhost localhost", then "echo $DISPLAY".
> 
> Then su - root, and run "export DISPLAY=<value from above>"
> 
> -Jim P.
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The  "xhost localhost" and "echo $DISPLAY" commands seem to work O.K.
"echo $DISPLAY" returns ":0.0"

However the commandto export given after su - returns: " > -su: syntax 
error near unexpected token `newline'

Where to now

Jim