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 1O9noS-0005sp-Ew for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 23:15:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 373B8E0826; Wed, 5 May 2010 23:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f212.google.com (mail-bw0-f212.google.com [209.85.218.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB2FEE0826 for ; Wed, 5 May 2010 23:14:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz4 with SMTP id 4so970058bwz.26 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:14:55 -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; bh=4e91xdXuO4Q4VWybhYaLX1ru3E/HgoeLdBj55HopmKU=; b=D2iJuqlG/j90bEWQu9xaGR47VAQatMGGJIw0NGpRXfE2UnbJ6RhNGd76fOxNsY5X0a pzz8Ec3GMRGkuykDJXc/oCHEKQxNgNuoPTzwhHSjdt7lqFgsgLkRCAS3NswviyUoiUSY AegVcvj+zmtyCPJguylKOQsEYDPqUv/XDZrz8= 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; b=BOgngWd0oRLm6Bl8EYruyD3rHprvJALgCZVnMxcWOaTm6AhuDfbztysqcmOyz6bdew syGO/zb76Gdjf74hfcddN4/yVt3xVbe0OJfgRWsvwb0Q1Lz4o6P+vnWoJEHz9WFhfX2T nMozBVNa3E//45H8lORh0/pDURUvN9BnQJ6po= 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 10.204.6.25 with SMTP id 25mr2202780bkx.135.1273101295044; Wed, 05 May 2010 16:14:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.33.150 with HTTP; Wed, 5 May 2010 16:14:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 02:14:55 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: a465871f-cd40-4da9-ab36-a7cbc9f815e4 X-Archives-Hash: 78077bb8fa591419ae3d48ea394e3709 On 5/6/10, Grant 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.