Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:20:23 -0500 From: Jud <judmarc@fastmail.fm> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <846A306B-270D-48FF-8856-2504791814A4@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <4D490635.8090601@comcast.net> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> <AANLkTinwjeG4hAuKZ89KBntgQzXXguT1z87MXM8XnKtm@mail.gmail.com> <4D48FDF1.5040504@comcast.net> <AANLkTim3zdxjKJYhR7O9TAEvJu3XdQ=vtCR9co9-E2mH@mail.gmail.com> <4D490635.8090601@comcast.net>
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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 Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:22 AM, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> 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. >> > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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