On Wednesday 30 June 2004 07:19 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
I don't know whether anyone has found a workaround, but watch out for the most recent version of MozillaFirefox from SuSe - 0.9.1.
It says that to get it working you must first fire it up as root. Alas, if I try to do that off the console, I get
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
(firefox-bin:8909): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
whether I use su, sux or xhost +localhost.
If I actually log in as root on KDE (not advised), I can start Firefox OK. But when I log out and back in again as an ordinary user, then I can't start Firefox as an ordinary user, since I now get the same message as root used to get above.
I really really really really wish SuSE would test this stuff a bit more before putting it on their ftp servers, or post a readme explaining how to get round this little circular argument.
Umm -- how could SuSE have tested something that didn't exist? Anyway there is a workaround that I read about on this list (I think) for 9.0 that worked for me on 9.1: xhost + firefox xhost - From that point on firefox should start without a fuss. If not, there is another workaround I read about somewhere but don't remember where -- search the archives or try google. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net