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I want to run gmsartcontrol (UI tool for smartctl) which needs to be run as root in order to access the drives and read their SMART status.

However doing this:

sudo gmsartcontrol

I get this error:

No protocol specified

[gtk] cannot open display: :0

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answered 3 Years ago itteast · Accepted Answer

For graphical applications use gksu:

gksu gsmartcontrol

If it is not installed on your system you can get it via:

apt-get install gksu