From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 13:22:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB08216A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:22:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linda-1.paradise.net.nz (bm-1a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.58.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 654EC43FF2 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:22:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@pole.net.nz) Received: from smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (smtp-3b.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.212]) by linda-1.paradise.net.nz (Paradise.net.nz) with ESMTP id <0HM900BXD1Y4ED@linda-1.paradise.net.nz> for gnome@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:22:53 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from [210.246.6.136] (210-246-6-136.paradise.net.nz [210.246.6.136]) by smtp-3.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC0CADF3B; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 09:22:51 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:22:57 +1300 From: James Pole In-reply-to: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost> To: Steve Peck Message-id: <1065295377.259.4.camel@localhost> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost> cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird (Extensions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:22:56 -0000 On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:08, Steve Peck wrote: > Oh, the FreeBSD Handbook, on browsers, says something about running Mozilla as root! > I tried this and GTK just complains about not being able to open the display. > The only way to do this is to run X as root, then open Mozilla. Is this right? Can I ask why you would want to run Mozilla (or any browser) as root? Anyway, it should work fine regardless of what user it's run under. Mozilla works fine under a normal username on my machine and I suppose Mozilla (or at least Epiphany) should work when running under root. - James