[NCLUG] Display variables

[Prescott Oelke]

 Matt,

Basically I logged in as root to do the install (as I'm under the impression
that a normal user can't install stuff), then back to a normal user to play
the game (which is great btw). Apparently though the Display wasn't the
problem with Netscape. Everything else works great since I fixed the
display, but Netscape puts up a message that says "bad bus" in the term
window (for everyone but root) and won't start. It's all kind of moot now
because I installed Mozilla which works great for all users.

 Thanks for all the help,

Prescott Oelke

On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:38:15 -0700, nclug at nclug.org wrote:

>  Prescott,
>  
>  I just did an experiment with unsetting DISPLAY. My last response had
been 
>  under the assumption that an unset DISPLAY still let you write to the
display 
>  if you owned it, which is not the case. I still don't know why running
things 
>  as root worked thought. So if I mistakenly accused you as running as
root, 
>  sorry about that.
>  
>  -- 
>  Matt Taggart
>  matt at lackof.org
>





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