On 5/6/10, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open
>>> display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as
>>> the new user.  I've tried restarting with the same results.  Does
>>> anyone know why this is happening?
>>
>> Is the user in the video group?
>
> Yes, I should have said that.

How have you set up the X session for the users? Is it specified,
e.g., in /etc/env.d/90xsession or in some user-specific configuration
files that only the other one would have?

Does anything exceptional appear in Xorg.log?

(As you can notice, I'm just guessing and shooting in the dark here.)

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Arttu V.

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