Programs like gedit gparted or even xrandr are failing with the error stated above. Booting into GNOME or KDE won't help. I tried everything that I found on google.
Even xauth +
will result in the same error.
export DISPLAY=:0 is set permanently in /etc/environment.
I don't know what I am missing here.
Root doesn't normally have access to your regular user's display from a terminal, but there are programs you can install that work around this, one of which (my favorite) is beesu. Install it using sudo dnf install -y beesu and then you can run gedit (as an example) with beesu - gedit either from a terminal or a launcher, and beesu will prompt for your password and then run the program for you with root access. (Gnome and KDE both have equivalents, but this one seems to be the most DE-agnostic I'm aware of.)
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Two questions. First, are you aware that F 24 has long passed End Of Life, and second, are you trying to run these programs as a regular user, or with
sudo?I found this issue while preparing my system for an update. The programs wont work when I invoke them as root
su -The
DISPLAYvariable is not supposed to be set by/etc/environmentThat is the job if the display manager such asgdm,xdm, orlightdm. The displaymanager also set theXAUTHORITYvariable referring to a dynamic generated file somewhere.I set the
DISPLAYvariable as a possible fix. Because bothDISPLAYandXAUTHORITYwere empty.Then I guess you are using wayland after all.