From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 06:52:02 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 1CBE6106566B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6808FC08 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 06:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm16 with SMTP id 16so7966754fxm.13 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:52:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=yVlLAmGYHX3+3qgqbkQY7hAJsjVGjjzo1osBjgMGWdo=; b=qeTS/btXTKsV6wuMj2YpR/66Vfv/Xl/lUaxzzvnucRRsq8015DnDEppFB0Gj58dmkd sDsyaarpYZ8EIS6q/EezTn2wkbD6sgNzpdK8C9DGti3Gb2IrUue5GLZOn54W4iTRlH33 iiEiaxb2pRDACCAo4yt6scvjT9f5r+zYuX8+g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=eEcFe114e+u1Iywzg/JPYGy5+DdSvYzVAXpR8XAp9jHoHtcPWEfXyqpAByc8r8jx0z 9WkGv1N1jyp4DmK992EGPesAQC+0TtVrKIm3cyai9V8NUgvSP1UHtmU0ngjFXzVuu8tQ o158Hg7MzWCb1CbYRflD0mdTxeUq8evpOT5B0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.95.202 with SMTP id e10mr791871fan.32.1296629520533; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:52:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.114.4 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:52:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D48FDF1.5040504@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> <4D48FDF1.5040504@comcast.net> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 00:52:00 -0600 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Rem P Roberti Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Armin Pirkovitsch , FreeBSD 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 06:52:02 -0000 On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > 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. -- Adam Vande More