Re: Problem running some apps under user

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 04:20, John T. Shaw wrote: 
> 
> I am having problems running gvim and xmms as a user on Xserver.  Both
> applications run fine when I am root.  Both applications crash if I run
> them from a user account.  I am sure this is a stupid problem, but I
> haven't been able to figure it out yet.  Gvim doesn't spit out any
> useful information really,  the window just opens and it stalls.  Xmms
> doesn't even open a window an puts out the following error message:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> ~  serial 219 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadFont (invalid Font parameter)
> ~  serial 224 error_code 7 request_code 47 minor_code 0

This is just a wild guess, but you wouldn't happen to run these via ssh
3.8?


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