On Thursday 01 July 2004 01:19, 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.
:)
OK, well go to: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ and download the default Linux file, which is: firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz su cp firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz /usr/local/ cd /usr/local tar zxf firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz cd bin ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox Right-click your desktop and create a new link to application. You can get an icon by browsing to /usr/local/firefox/icons. Name it and give /usr/local/ firefox/firefox as the path to the executable. You're good to go, and you haven't had to access the x-server as root. And everything is nicely anti-aliased, etc. If you didn't care about whether other users could access it, you could just untar the whole thing in your $HOME and link to it there. HTH Fergus
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