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2 Dec
2004
2 Dec
'04
01:15
* Randall R Schulz
I'm inclined to think the symptoms I experienced with the Gnome Control Center not launching and with the "xhost +local:" work-around allowing it to run is _not_ normal.
You are correct, it should not require root access. Check your perms, -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 43216 2004-01-26 17:32 /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-control-center -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos