F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Aug 15 03:10:53 UTC 2008


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.

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