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Why does emacs run instead of xemacs when i su - to a user?

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gwichman

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Sep 10, 2002
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I log into CDE as root. emacs will launch the xwindows version of it. If I su - to another user (in this case the lotus notes user), running emacs runs the ascii version. My TERM variable is set to dterm in both cases so there must be something more here.. appreciate the help!
 
Hi,

Is your DISPLAY variable correctly set after "su - lotus_user" ? You should also have to "xhost +your_hostname" as root to allow lotus_user access your display.
 
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