Hi Alexis,
thank your for the quick pointer! I was totally unaware of that system.
And, in addition, I wonder why evince and okular attempt start as root,
id -a shows that I am in my non-privileged group, working in my regular
shell.
Still wondering *why* the viewers want to connect to a socket at /root/,
and how fix that.
Best regards,
Oliver.
On 18/12/2023 22:45, Alexis wrote:
Oliver Corff via <groff@gnu.org> writes:
when starting evince I get
the message
Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket
/root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied
Never seen this before, I even do not know what at-spi is.
Same with okular.
"at-spi" is "Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_Service_Provider_Interface
The error suggests you're trying to run evince and okular as root, in
a GUI/desktop session running as a non-root user, with the latter
being configured (perhaps by default) to support at-spi services.
Alexis.
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