Display Errors in running programs as Spot

[cOdePuppy]

Hi,

I was trying to run programs as spot user from command terminal. But failing with some display errors,

seamonkey --> Error: no display specified

xboard --------> Error: Can't open display

google-chrome --> (google-chrome:32385) Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open
display

firefox ----> Error: no display specified

javaws somefile.jnlp --> #Java web start splash screen process exiting.....
Splash: X11 connection failed: No such file or directory

All these programs,files run as 'root' user.

How to solve this problem?

(Puppy version: 5.3.3)

[L18L]

...How to solve this problem?

(Puppy version: 5.3.3)

Simply use loginmanager in recent Puppy Precise 5.7.1

[simargl7]

It's funny to see message "We consider running as root to be safe"

in the same dialog that is made because we actually consider running as root to not be so completely safe.

[rcrsn51]

Agreed. I never understood the necessity of fido, other than to mollify reviewers who complained about "run as root".

After a year, the shutdown dialog still says "Fido - CURRENTLY EXPERIMENTAL STATUS - please choose administrator". Why introduce a feature, then tell people not to use it? Image how confusing that must be to newcomers.

I always felt that the security issue could have been addressed simply by having a "Secure Browsing" icon on the desktop that led to

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su -c defaultbrowser spot

[Billtoo]

I used the loginmanager to run gnome-mplayer as spot for streaming internet radio thinking anything accessing the internet is safer as spot.

[mikeb]

To the original question seems like its expecting a user spots home folder but I thought it was supposed to work without that...perhaps it needs the display variable setting as part of the command

export DISPLAY=localhost:0 ; firefox

but thats just a hairy guess.

general note....
In normal land a picture is just a picture and a mp3 stream is just an mp3 stream ... embedded scripts are just ignored... there is no active x floating around these parts

mike

[cOdePuppy]

Simply use loginmanager in recent Puppy Precise 5.7.1

Hello,
I can not find the package repository for 5.7.1 in PPM, I also done some searches on the web where only the .iso of 5.7.1 is found.
How can I install the 'loginmanager' package in my current puppy or, do I need to upgrade to 5.7.1 to do that?

Sorry for delayed reply.

[Flash]

It's funny to see message "We consider running as root to be safe"

in the same dialog that is made because we actually consider running as root to not be so completely safe.

I guess simargl7 is using the royal "we." As in, "We is full of bull," or, "We has no idea what we talking about."