Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Grant wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? - Grant Have you tried strace? It'll help tell what the app is doing just before the cannot open ... message is displayed. HTH, David
[gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
On 5/5/10, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is the user in the video group? -- Arttu V.
Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is the user in the video group? Yes, I should have said that. - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
On 5/6/10, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like cannot open display and cannot connect to X server when I try to run X apps as the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is the user in the video group? Yes, I should have said that. How have you set up the X session for the users? Is it specified, e.g., in /etc/env.d/90xsession or in some user-specific configuration files that only the other one would have? Does anything exceptional appear in Xorg.log? (As you can notice, I'm just guessing and shooting in the dark here.) -- Arttu V.
