Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:22:29 -0800 From: Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Armin Pirkovitsch <armin@frozen-zone.org>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Opening Opera as user Message-ID: <4D490635.8090601@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3zdxjKJYhR7O9TAEvJu3XdQ=vtCR9co9-E2mH@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D48BEC7.4030705@comcast.net> <AANLkTinU-3eGdz%2BibOyg8d8LgimHUqWMuam6hnmyhoLp@mail.gmail.com> <4D48EFDF.90109@comcast.net> <4D48F247.4000007@frozen-zone.org> <4D48F650.3060205@comcast.net> <AANLkTinwjeG4hAuKZ89KBntgQzXXguT1z87MXM8XnKtm@mail.gmail.com> <4D48FDF1.5040504@comcast.net> <AANLkTim3zdxjKJYhR7O9TAEvJu3XdQ=vtCR9co9-E2mH@mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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. > The reason that I installed linux-opera, as opposed to the native version, is that all of the linux plugins seem to work quite well with this version. Flash, for example, works beautifully, which is something that I have never had success using with any other browser and FreeBSD. Rem
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