On Thursday 14 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> I believe these 3 programs are all GUI programs, and even >>> root will get a connection refused message if another user is logged in. >> >> Maybe I'm dense, but what the heck has x running as root, a visual >> interface, got to do with what is supposed to be an audio application? > >What I was trying to say is that if another user is using X, then >even root can not start a GUI program from the command line. You do >not have permission to connect to the X server. Now, if you have >more then one X secession open, then you may have to pass the >display to your program, or set the DISPLAY variable. (DISPLAY is >not set for a CLI login if you started X from another login.) Only one user here, my wife can't even master a session of gedit if I run it for her and then give her this chair. >You run into this problem with any that tryes to connect to the X >server if you do not "own" the X server. (Unless you turn off access >control.) > >With you logged in as root to the GUI, this is not the problem yo >are running into - this is why I asked the question - to determine >if this was your problem. As I don't log into the GUI as root, I am >not sure if it causes problems with PA, but I am guessing that it >does. I have not problems with PA when I am logged in as a normal user. > >If you have some spare time, try logging in as a normal user and see >if that changes anything. If everything works, it is a good >indication of a bug on how root is handled. If it does not work, >then it is a good indication that it is a problem with your specific >hardware/software combination... > >Mikkel I did get kino-1.3.1 built and running just now. :) Thanks Mikkel. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Somewhere in DOWNTOWN BURBANK a prostitute is OVERCOOKING a LAMB CHOP!! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
