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From: "Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 02:14:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <v2qfecdbac61005051614t3365d2a6z9e602158af82eb6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <l2g49bf44f11005051402ld2f0bde2nd2d75d10028c23@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/6/10, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Is the user in the video group?
>
> Yes, I should have said that.

How have you set up the X session for the users? Is it specified,
e.g., in /etc/env.d/90xsession or in some user-specific configuration
files that only the other one would have?

Does anything exceptional appear in Xorg.log?

(As you can notice, I'm just guessing and shooting in the dark here.)

-- 
Arttu V.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05 20:41 [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps Grant
2010-05-05 20:51 ` Arttu V.
2010-05-05 21:02   ` Grant
2010-05-05 23:14     ` Arttu V. [this message]
2010-05-27 11:29 ` David Relson
2010-05-27 23:14 ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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