Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:45:00 +0200 From: Frank Ruell <stoerte@dreamwarrior.net> To: Steve Peck <steve@xmagic.co.uk> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird (Extensions) Message-ID: <874qyoznhf.fsf@dreamwarrior.foobar.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost> (Steve Peck's message of "Sat, 4 Oct 2003 21:08:50 %2B0000") References: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost>
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Steve Peck <steve@xmagic.co.uk> writes: > 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? My user which started X is called stoerte, so I would do a: ``export XAUTHORITY=/home/stoerte/.Xauthority'' after I 'su'ed to root and start mozilla from xterm. You could also use 'su -m', or just sudo (security/sudo) which is very handy anyway. cheers, Frank
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