Kevin Brosius on Fri, 18 Jan 2002 07:15:58 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] KMAIL Question


Naresh Reddy wrote:
> 
> I have two e-mail accounts, and I want to send/receive e-mail with both of
> the accounts. So I set up KMAIL for the two e-mail (I made two separate
> accounts no my box, one for each e-mail address). Is it possible to have
> KMAIL manage both of these accounts? I currently have login and 'startx' and
> check my e-mail, and then logoff and then re-login (as the different user).
> This is getting really annoying.
> 
> Why can't i open up a console in KDE and just 'su - otheruser' and then
> 'kmail'? I get this error when I try to do that :
> 
> Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpected. and then check my e-mail.
> This is becoming tedious.

in bash?

after the 'su', do an

export DISPLAY=":0.0"

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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