On 22 June 2011 09:01, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:35:50 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo: > > >Finally it all finished and I think 1.5.0 is installed. However, it did > >not create a launcher and I don't know the name of the executable, so I > >have no way to run it. From the command line "scribus" just launches > >1.3.9. Does anyone know how to run my new Scribus? > > Looking at /usr/local/scribus_svn/bin/ there is an executable with the > name "scribus." Launching it starts Scribus 1.3.9. Its properties says > it is owned by root. Launching it from the command line as root gives > me: > > [root at Devil8 bin]# scribus > No protocol specified > scribus: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > The properties for the executable only say that it is owned by root; > there is no further information about the file. > > You can safely run programs owned by root as a non root user as long as other users have the permission to run them. The error means that you run your X server as a non root user and have not allowed programs running as a different user to connect to it. Try running scribus with your normal login and start it from an X terminal and everything should be fine. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110622/eaffb381/attachment.html>
