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

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 08:19 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 [...] 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.

:)

Fish =========

Mark, This is not a SuSE problem and it's been discussed here already. There is a bug in the 0.9.x Firefox that causes this problem. Not easily fixed and certainly not by SuSE. You can check the archives for answers to this perplexing anomaly or you can do this! ;o) Open a shell as user and issue this command: xhost +local: then run firefox from shell it should open and once it does, close it down do: xhost -local: (to close this down) Now you should be able to run firefox from the shell or icon. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

On Thursday 01 July 2004 02.19, Mark Crean wrote:

xhost +localhost.

This won't have any effect in a default 9.1 setup since SuSE's X server doesn't listen for tcp connections. use "xhost +local:" instead

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

Fish

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