[ale] Wifi-radar

[James P. Kinney III]

try su wifiradar without the "-". That will leave the screen perm of the
current user intact.

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:50 -0400, Jim Moore wrote:
> 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
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