* blabla <blabla1@cwazy.co.uk> [01-25-05 17:07]:
So here is the result of my labours as root after having installed the Suse 9.2 rpm as suggested by Patrick:
dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin # ./thunderbird.sh DISPLAY empty or unusable DISPLAY=:0.0 dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin #
Unfortunately I got no further...
and you will not. As has been explained several times here, root does not have access to the display when you have logged on as <user>. We can see that you are trying to initiate thunderbird as root by the command line prompt '#'. Try the above as <user> and, perhaps, you may succeed. It can be done also as root, but you must give root permission first, via sudo or 'sux', super-user w/X access. But, you were advised to utilize rpm, not work as root. Your first sentence above is somewhat mis-leading in that aspect. -- 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