Re: [orca-list] gedit: could not open display when using it as root?

[José Vilmar Estácio de Souza <vilmar informal com br>]

This is confirmed.

On 03/25/2012 04:44 PM, Andy B. wrote:
> Try this in Ubuntu 12.04. I do not know if this is an accessibility
> problem because I could not find much about the problem anywhere online.
> It seems that when doing:
>
> $sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/srs
>
> I end up getting:
>
> Gedit: could not open display. Type ‘gedit –help’ for more options.
>
> $gedit test_file
>
> [gedit opens with a blank file]
>
> …after closing gedit…
>
> $gksudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/srs
>
> [gtk window asking for administrator’s password appears. Typing the
> password and pressing ENTER closes the process with the following in the
> terminal window]
>
> GTK **warning** (2575): could not find GTK theme in ‘MODULE_PATH’. Pixmap.
>
> $
>
> Any idea what could be going on? Some website recommended to install
> gtk2-engines-pixbuf. After doing this I still get the same problem.
> Could Orca be interfering somehow?
>
>
>
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