Qt/KDE problems with MIT-SHM when Xorg is not running as root

2015-01-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi All, A Fedora user has reported problems with MIT-SHM when the xserver is not running as root. Normal use works fine, but when doing a su - and then starting X apps as root MIT-SHM fails, see this screenshot: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=977933 The culprit is this error:

Re: Qt/KDE problems with MIT-SHM when Xorg is not running as root

2015-01-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 29-01-15 10:33, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2015 10:20:41 Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, A Fedora user has reported problems with MIT-SHM when the xserver is not running as root. Normal use works fine, but when doing a su - and then starting X apps as root MIT-SHM fails,

Re: Qt/KDE problems with MIT-SHM when Xorg is not running as root

2015-01-29 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Thursday 29 January 2015 10:20:41 Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, A Fedora user has reported problems with MIT-SHM when the xserver is not running as root. Normal use works fine, but when doing a su - and then starting X apps as root MIT-SHM fails, see this screenshot: