From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 14:20:27 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 C0856106566B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892048FC1E for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.43]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651D52074F; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:20:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:20:26 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:message-id:cc:from:subject:date:to; s=smtpout; bh=ZzAe8yB+87eAMnOZ81IxGsuPfAU=; b=hV2HJ9zJ7aUqI9LpRpNeQpuQyQxjgVw0c2Fj7uu5E/qTPggCfVjuZN6LW1Q5p5p5WBJheUpthGUGNj0x/GbyYwglvoxueMQlTg/EIFGpEc4rhTnOtUW/fpk50sKbZhmt/yI2dLIDi9RVslCsIu/0prehFf0VL0C/AftwBwq0IMA= X-Sasl-enc: GbN8V1RS5sMjGasz7gaHa0tn55tsytZFjF8szNRU6K/7 1296656426 Received: from [10.0.0.192] (unknown [12.104.121.82]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 22954406FC0; Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:20:26 -0500 (EST) 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> In-Reply-To: <4D490635.8090601@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPhone Mail 8C148a) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <846A306B-270D-48FF-8856-2504791814A4@fastmail.fm> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (8C148a) From: Jud Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:20:23 -0500 To: Rem P Roberti 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 14:20:27 -0000 Just wanted to mention that Flash works fine for me with native Opera and th= e 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 c= alled "opera" or "linux-opera"? Jud Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >>=20 >> 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? >>=20 >> You can try to run it under truss(1) to see if that gives any clues as wh= ere it's failing. >>=20 >=20 > 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 neve= r had success using with any other browser and FreeBSD. >=20 > Rem > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g"