[KLUG Members] When Launching Apps from a terminal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > Based upon your prompt I suspect you su'd and then tried to run the app?
> Yes, I did a 'sudo su' and then ran the command to avoid typing my root
> password, because the gnome-system-monitor when launched from the gnome
> menu askes for root privelidges of course.  Is this a benign error? 

Yep.

> Or do I have some setting up to do of authentication that was never tended
> to as a post install task?

The session manager listens on a domain socket that the application
learns about from the environment:
awilliam at aleph:~> env | grep ICE
SESSION_MANAGER=local/aleph:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8356
awilliam at aleph:~> ls -l /tmp/.ICE-unix/8356
srwxrwxrwx  1 awilliam users 0 2005-09-20 12:23 /tmp/.ICE-unix/8356

When you su this variable is probably lost.