On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:59:33 +0100 (BST)
"Barnaby Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the
> >> console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single
> >> command?
> >
> > I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and co
On Thu, May 18, 2006 2:51 pm, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Barnaby Scott wrote:
>
>
>> So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me
>> though:
>> 1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the
>> console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a singl
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So now I can strat Firefox from an xterm, but 2 things still puzzle me
though:
1) Forgive my stupidity, but why can I not start Firefox from the
console? Or rather, what could I do to make it do so with a single command?
I'm perfectly willing to be wrong, flamed, and corr
> From: Barnaby Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
> Sent: 18 May '06 16:45
>
> John Nielsen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote:
> >> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> >>> Barn
> From: Barnaby Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
> Sent: 18 May '06 16:45
>
> John Nielsen wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote:
> >> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> >>> Barn
John Nielsen wrote:
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and
behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 17:07, Barnaby Scott wrote:
> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> > Barnaby Scott wrote:
> >> So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
> >> bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and
> >> behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:
> >
Barnaby Scott wrote:
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
(firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
Q: Are you running an X display at the time this message is given,
or are you attempting to run Firefox from the console?
I have tried both. It is running from the console
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was
bang up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and
behold, first attempt to use it and I get this:
(firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
What the..?
Barnaby Scott wrote:
So, I installed Firefox from ports, having made sure everything was bang
up to date. Evrything seemed to go perfectly well, but lo and behold,
first attempt to use it and I get this:
(firefox-bin:582): Gtk-Warning **: Cannot open display
What the..?
I have searched for
Peter wrote:
>
> As mentioned in an earlier post, I tried that on my own when I ran into
> trouble and I have not edited this file. The default is to allow root
> logins.
Just to be clear, FreeBSD is shipped with root logins via SSH
*DISABLED*. (most Linux distros i remember, OTOH, have it enabl
> grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~
> PermitRootLogin yes
> * Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 15:31]:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Eric Ekong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>
To: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: Eric Ekong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/
> > Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> >
> > check /etc/
bsd-questions@freebsd.org
> X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/
> Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> check /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>
> there is a line that says
>
> grep Root /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~
> PermitRo
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:31:33 -0500 (EST)
> From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Eric Ekong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
>
> --- Eric Ekong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> &
--- Eric Ekong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X
> then run the program
>
> Eric
> * Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 15:00]:
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: freebsd-questions
> > Subj
try ssh -X -C -l root localhost as the normal user of X
then run the program
Eric
* Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060209 15:00]:
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
> From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: freebsd-questions
> Subject: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> Hello, I am run
Hello!
You can use gtk-su.
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 15:00:54 -0500 (EST)
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 with the Fluxbox window manager. I have
> installed a MySQL GUI but I cannot run it as root:
>
> (mysql-administrator-bin:814): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open disp
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