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Date:      Wed, 2 Feb 2011 00:52:00 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net>
Cc:        Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Opening Opera as user
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote:


> I always start x as user.  I learned early on not to make the mistake of
> starting X as root.  I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open
> there with root invoked for that window.  That's when I first tried to open
> linux-opera.  Naturally, it opened fine, but will not open if I try to do
> the same thing from a terminal window as user.  I would like to set up Opera
> to open from the Fluxbox menu, but in order for that to happen the program
> needs to be opened as user, which is just what I can't do.
>

I'm not an opera user so maybe there's a reason I'm not aware of, but why
are you using linux-opera and not the native version?

You can try to run it under truss(1) to see if that gives any clues as where
it's failing.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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