Why can’t I run GUI apps as root: “No protocol specified”?
I installed Debian onto my machine last night. Now, I don’t understand why I can’t run GUI apps from a terminal when running as root.
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Which GUI diff viewer would you recommend, with Copy-to-Left/Right functionality?
I’ve hardly ever used anything other than Meld. Can you recommend anything else?
Lightest way to run GUI applications in Linux?
I realized I can use a window manager without a desktop environment and don’t lose any functionality I care about. Applications still work fine, I can still arrange application windows as I please. This pretty much eliminates the need for lightweight desktop environments such as LXDE and XFCE for use cases like mine. I wonder … Read more
How do I work with GUI tools over a remote server?
I have an Ubuntu server running on EC2 (which I didn’t install myself, just picked up an AMI). So far I’m using putty to work with it, but I am wondering how to work on it with GUI tools (I’m not familiar with Linux UI tools, but I want to learn). Silly me, I’m missing the convenience of Windows Explorer.
What is the icon between settings and lock-screen in Gnome3?
I can’t figure out what the icon between my settings and lock-screen icon in Gnome3 is supposed to do.
Ranger – open_with without suspending
When I open a file into ranger with a GUI application not listed in the rifle.conf file (i.e. using the open_with command), the ranger terminal window gets “suspended” until I close the GUI app.
How do I merge two *.avi files into one
I have two *.avi files:
How does the power button shut the computer down without root permission?
When I try to shutdown the computer from a command line or terminal I must have root privileges:
Run gui application on startup
I can run a script at boot by adding the following line to my crontab:
How to display a (zenity/GUI) dialog to the user after a root cron task has completed
I have a simple periodic cron task that must run as root. I want to use Zenity (or similar) to display a GUI informational dialog to user 1000 (or logged in user or all users) when the cron task finishes.