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praka123

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vim :No protocol specified

Hi ,
whenever I open vi/vim as root in terminal,I get this error:

root@myhost:~# vim
[b]No protocol specified[/b]

what happened?:(

while as local user it is perfectly OK.:|

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

can you try

$type vim

for me?

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praka123

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From: Kerala,India

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

root@myhost:~# type vim
vim is hashed (/usr/bin/vim)

^Output,what that means?

praka123

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

some help

calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

I get this error too but only with kate and other gui editors. As far as I can tell, it's a security measure. The xorg server doesn't allow connections which have root privileges which involve programs started from the shell. I don't know why this is affecting vim, but int the meantime, you could use 'kdesu kate [filename]' as a workaround, which is what I used to do when I was too lazy to learn copy/paste in vim

eerok

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-03-20

Posts: 171

Re: vim :No protocol specified

I've encountered this problem only in KDE so I think it's not anything xorg is doing.

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praka123

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

^yes.even I am on kdemod :?

phrakture

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

Oooh, I get it now.

This is vim trying to connect to your X clipboard, when running as root. Can you ignore it? I would. Otherwise, you can do the typical "allow root to access the X server" thing, using xhost.

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MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: vim :No protocol specified

I've had this issue as well but even opening a konsole window, then su-ing to another users account, *not roots*, I get precisely the same error.  It does not matter which user I try to run programs from/to and its driving me batty. 

Oddly enough, if I do ctrl-alt-F1, switch to VT1, login then any program I wish to run as another user from within my new shell's KDE session, works fine as expected...however, when I try to switch back to VT7 (the normal vt in use) my session has died & gone to the KDM screen. 

Is anyone else having similar behaviour or are these two issues unrelated?  If they're not related I'll delete this & start another thread.

praka123

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

sry if it is offtopic:
does archlinux bundles "sux" ,the "x" wrapper for "su" sessions?sux exports X credential as root.

ontopic:
also,for the error vim throws out,will there be any solution by editing /etc/vimrc ?

I am missing 2 important features of vim in archlinux(I know it is possible!)
1.I cannot press middlebutton(wheel) to paste something from selected text to vim editor.same happens with paste also.
2.I cannot scroll through the file text

these 2 are enabled by default in almost all distros.Debian included.
So,Is there any solution.:) thanks for the support

vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

Re: vim :No protocol specified

sux is in the aur.

1. you cannot paste at all? how about shift - insert (that should paste)?

praka123

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

^YUP.ofcourse,that works.but in Debian,for eg:a simple middle button press is enough

gejr

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Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 92

Re: vim :No protocol specified

Sorry for bringing up this rather old thread, but I just want to add that for me this was resolved by stopping the gpm daemon.

caecusum

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Registered: 2007-08-26

Posts: 29

Re: vim :No protocol specified

I found this searching through the forum and just wanted to add that I seem to have the same problem, but only when I have

set title

in my .vimrc

In case that helps anyone

Scoobi_FreeBSD

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Registered: 2010-02-01

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

The "No protocol specified" error is from Vim's failure to connect to the X server.  Either unset the DISPLAY environment variable or start Vim with the -X option to prevent it from connecting to the X server.  The 'set title' option requires Vim to try to talk to the X server to set the terminal window title.

As for why Vim cannot connect to the X server, in my case it's only when I'm 'su root'; I can probably eliminate that by executing

xhost +local:

on the local X server.

fettouhi

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Registered: 2007-05-07

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

I'm getting this warning at the moment with vim since I upgraded to KDE SC 4.5.  How can I remove this warning permanently? Where can I put

xhost +local:

I don't have a .vimrc in my home folder.

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

Given that the last post in this thread to receive an answer was in 2008 you'd be better 0ff starting a new thread.

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jasonwryan

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Re: vim :No protocol specified

Closing: follow the new thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103808

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