Also, if you could possibly copy/paste the full command and output, or post a screenshot somewhere, that would be most helpful.
-wes On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > I still do not think that what you see is Firefox related. > Are you trying to use Yast2 remotely from another machine? If so, how > do you log in? Ssh/VNC/.....? > To give you head start for further follow up, here is little Yast2 > trivia if you run on local machine: > * Yast2 needs to be started as root > * on SuSE, sudo does not forward X traffic, so running: sudo yast2 > will start Yast2 in text (ncurses) mode. You might not like that. > * To get Yast2 to come in X GUI, use following commands: > - become root: su > - start Yast2: yast2 > If you need to run yast on remote machine and want X GUI, The best way > is to use VNC. > Hope it helps, Tomas > On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 12:36 -0800, logical american wrote: > > On 2/23/2017 10:10 AM, wes wrote: > > > I think you're still in "too terse" territory. We are not familiar > > > with any > > > way for Firefox to "block" any other application from opening. What > > > do you > > > actually see when you try to open Yast2 while Firefox is already > > > running? > > Wes: > > > > I went back and checked again. It was the yast2 command which > > failed, > > but because it could NOT open an X-window. Unfortunately the message > > which popped up on my screen indicated that Firefox had blocked the > > command from executing from the CLI terminal window. > > > > This most likely was caused by some gnome interception of the error > > code > > and an attempt to identify the cause. > > > > I understand that the true cause was the inability of yast2 to > > properly > > open up a new popup window. > > > > Thanks for your questions and telling me to be more specific and less > > terse. > > > > - Randall > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
