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 1O9lQM-0008Jv-Mz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 20:42:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7022E0574; Wed, 5 May 2010 20:41:23 +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 AE30FE0574 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 20:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so406732vws.40 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:41:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=24ezcD3lpDCulT4r6cdhRgqmSNHRCSbERMv7oK+jnHE=; b=BBcoXTw13H2Kpc8uaCcDs/Xm6v8xlsHGHAa0muLYAdFEke+xeSPRvFfMAJjBJLYCOM Or0tRbkAQtqQgvE08fTN6GZzsTpePv0hAv39x8ksNdETmoZKUPv5URts5iL2eua8KypU Lu1PtIrbxo+t7rOFAqxbVz5czSdEOy3AYuMFQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Kf2Mgr2N2c98Wux4bm96raWZ4C3a+/oXclkRwyhqb7XIa47XYHJUnQ1EjtvC81cehk bqPD9mI6Zylfg1HMFXS58+0iuAxo8Vu6GD/otVBISvyHEjXSEqcRl3ONRL9VqD8TZYa1 jfIS6pGC7RDQeP5EoKP2UiwUpnVdZEHLyAZM0= 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 e15mr1385461vcp.21.1273092079843; Wed, 05 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.86.198 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 497aba06-a4a2-491c-86f4-65dac548ca48 X-Archives-Hash: 8c0556d896594414f48bb9f601733567 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. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does anyone know why this is happening? - Grant