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Cannot open Gedit display on Ubuntu Server 12.04

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http://askubuntu.com – I just installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 32 bit. I need to perform the following command in a terminal window: sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf First the gedit command did not work; therefore, I did: sudo apt-get install gedit Then I typed sudo gedit /etc/samba.smb.conf and now I am getting: Cannot open display Can anyone help? (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/10/2012

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I have been 'cleaning up' a base system I use for cloning in VirtualBox.

I try to run gedit from terminal and type some text in a file opened there, but have no success. I try to use gedit; sleep 2; xte -x display 'key k'; command but this one run gedit only(without typing the k char). Can some one chip in me?

recently, after a regular update/upgrade (i actually were using Wheezy from a long time from Crunchbang), when i enter "sudo synaptic" at the terminal, i get:Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key (synaptic:3248): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0and the same when i try "sudo pluma", "sudo gedit", "sudo caja --no-desktop", "sudo gedit --no-desktop",

I am getting the following error when running this command line: sudo /etc/ddclient.conf

I installed ddclient by : sudo apt-get install ddclient It does open the editor with the file in question, but what does the error mean?

** (gedit:4090): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-cSWf9rWIYX: Connection refused

Thank you

Running Gui apps as superuser 2 years 44 weeks ago

Hi All,

Im comming from ubuntu/mint and one of the things I got used too was doing something like "sudo nautilus" or "sudo gedit" and similar things. In Suse 11.3 I always get errors like the following

(gedit:6115): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: kate: cannot connect to X server Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:

felrood wrote:It's not a bug, it's a feature!Gedit seems to display data from stdin in a new "Unsaved document". For example:echo "foobar" | geditTo break the pipe opened by krusader, i replaced the command 'gedit %U' in krusader with this script:#!/bin/bash

gedit $1 < /dev/nullman, you're a genius. thank you so much! ps.

I need to simulate the behavior of the keyboard shortcut (ALT+F4) using Terminal for a given application.

If I open for example gedit and click ALT + F4 , then GEDIT will be xkilled. If I want to achieve same thing using Terminal, how should I proceed?

The following command (in order to kill gedit process) works fine:

kill $eval `pidof gedit`

yet, the command

xkill -id gedit

prompts me to

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.

Hi,

I am accessing my lab's server through my Macbook. The server is running Ubuntu 12.10.