From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O9ljw-0002Ec-Hv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 21:02:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7105E07B4; Wed, 5 May 2010 21:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C775E07B4 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 21:02:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so427132vws.40 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:02:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tuZJ+Y5GCEWi/GpG33gM2grDVY9kO6hH7CD/AZU1ZII=; b=GN9Sa5Ih6YxBrI9VIccbdqRGUdZHw3uTeJSZug1VqrfdQ5/wy2huPb1cuzuLZLnzkx quRQezXwppI/qQRvVHGK35LPKCU5vCzQevVdoaC/3UKOuG3QOX4uZ/wZMChzT4M9BdwP tqTgUPuapMNqdntxvzt0kI2ZTjHgjckWtlHMw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TrrvvtJi+39At52wUzzfQajCkw4mW6fraUdKtRjfO9MIYrD0vTGOywxMBzVoRLG+xw QUxb71oJ2apE9wXEG3jC7ElsLqz/E2KcVxjM4iCgR6hW86A4R6djTzeiZhVOz+9gxb6E 6DIGSjsc66oZrQIP+YzaLcZcHa2e87vJ1+h3A= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.108.79 with SMTP id e15mr1403869vcp.21.1273093335100; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.86.198 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 14:02:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:02:14 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6c21f117-afc6-45c6-9e03-57fffceaeac4 X-Archives-Hash: 2fca5a6cb57d456643552ee125f04d93 >> I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open >> display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as >> the new user. =A0I've tried restarting with the same results. =A0Does >> anyone know why this is happening? > > Is the user in the video group? Yes, I should have said that. - Grant