gksudo --user postgres pgadmin3 produces Unable to initialize GTK+. Why?

Question

$ pgadmin3
$ pcmanfm 
$ gksudo pcmanfm

Invoke the programs fine but:

$ gksudo --user postgres pgadmin3

Produces:

19:38:10: Error: Unable to initialize GTK+, is DISPLAY set properly?

Why?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

1

By default, another user does not have permission to use the X screen.

This works for me:

xhost SI:localuser:postgres

gksudo --user postgres pgadmin3

# or sudo -u postgres -H pgadmin3

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Apr 26 '16 at 11:11

Daniel Vérité

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