Thunar in Fedora 18 and Fedora Rawhide.

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:48:17 -0500
David <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Fedora 18 when opening the Terminal and becoming 'root' running
> Thunar from the CL opens Thunar with a warning that 'you' are running
> it as 'root'.
> 
> In Fedora Rawhide (to be Fedora 19) when opening the Terminal and
> becoming 'root' running Thunar from the CL fails with a message
> "thunar: cannot open display:"
> 
> What has been changed and how to change it back?

It has the first behavior here under rawhide. 

How are you becoming root?

try 'sudo -i' ?

kevin
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