Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 00:52:00 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <AANLkTim3zdxjKJYhR7O9TAEvJu3XdQ=vtCR9co9-E2mH@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D48FDF1.5040504@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>
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:47 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. -- Adam Vande More
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