Let me paste here the output from the X terminal when I tried to run rhythmbox both as root, and as user 'dd', if it helps someone to understand the problem. Obviously it did not run. Is the SCIM thing the culprit? << [dd@mamdo ~]$ rhythmbox (rhythmbox:6721): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: couldn't connect to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. (rhythmbox:6721): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Failed to invoking the agent: No such file or directory Cannot launch the agent The messenger is now down An IOException occurred at scim_bridge_client_imcontext_set_cursor_location () (rhythmbox:6721): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed (rhythmbox:6721): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Couldn't find an x overlay The messenger is now down [dd@mamdo ~]$ rhythmbox (rhythmbox:6796): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name (rhythmbox:6796): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed (rhythmbox:6796): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Couldn't find an x overlay [dd@mamdo ~]$ >> And as root: << [root@mamdo ~]# rhythmbox (rhythmbox:6742): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Unable to grab media player keys: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name Loading socket Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading x11 FrontEnd module ... Failed to load x11 FrontEnd module. Loading simple Config module ... Creating backend ... Loading socket FrontEnd module ... Starting SCIM as daemon ... (rhythmbox:6742): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_set_state: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed (rhythmbox:6742): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Couldn't find an x overlay [root@mamdo ~]# >> -- das ddts.randomink.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list