From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 15:56:26 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C66106566B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remegius@comcast.net) Received: from qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.80]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05518FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:56:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.44]) by qmta08.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 33td1g00C0xGWP8583wS2u; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:26 +0000 Received: from remegius.comcast.net ([67.180.204.190]) by omta12.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 33wQ1g00h46zqiB3Y3wRtf; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:25 +0000 Message-ID: <4D497EA6.5020500@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:56:22 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110131 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jud References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> <4D48FDF1.5040504@comcast.net> <4D490635.8090601@comcast.net> <846A306B-270D-48FF-8856-2504791814A4@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <846A306B-270D-48FF-8856-2504791814A4@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:26 -0000 > Just wanted to mention that Flash works fine for me with native Opera and the opera-linuxplugins port. > > So did you install linux-Opera from the port? I haven't run linux-Opera on FreeBSD in a while (I run it in Linux:), so I don't recall - is the binary called "opera" or "linux-opera"? > > Jud > > >>> I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the >>> mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a >>> terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it >>> opened fine, but will not open if I try to do the same thing from >>> a terminal window as user. I would like to set up Opera to open >>> from the Fluxbox menu, but in order for that to happen the program >>> needs to be opened as user, which is just what I can't do. >>> >>> >>> I'm not an opera user so maybe there's a reason I'm not aware of, but why are you using linux-opera and not the native version? >>> >>> You can try to run it under truss(1) to see if that gives any clues as where it's failing. >>> >> The reason that I installed linux-opera, as opposed to the native version, is that all of the linux plugins seem to work quite well with this version. Flash, for example, works beautifully, which is something that I have never had success using with any other browser and FreeBSD. >> >> Rem I installed the program from the ports. And, yes, the binary is called linux-opera. If I can't figure out why the program refuses to open as user I will probably do a pkg_delete and start over, especially since you seem to have the plug-ins working fine with the native program. Rem