On Sun 16 Feb 2025 at 00:56:50 (+0000), Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > On Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:31 PM, Dan Ritter replied: > > > That's the sort of thing that happens when you run evince from a > > command line not in an Xterminal, or from a terminal running on > > a different userid than the one running X. > > And on Saturday, February 15, 2025 6:31 PM, Charles Curley asked: > > > Are you running evince and X as the same user? > > Yes. I called evince from the command line in an xterm running under fvwm. > I also call up the xterm and fvwm from startx (via ~/.xinitrc) when I log in.
Perhaps now moot, I think that's an unusual X start-up. For example, I can't find any reference to .xinitrc in /etc/X11/, as opposed to .xsession. Cheers, David.
