Re: [ jEdit-users ] Installing on SuSE 9.2

[scragz <je...@sc...>]

Hassan Schroeder might have said:
> scragz wrote:
> > Just switched to SuSE from Debian and I'm trying to get jEdit set
> > up. I'm just going off of what I've always done that's worked and
> > it's throwing errors.
> >
> > $ sudo java -jar jedit43pre1install.jar
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> >
> > Running it without sudo or su works fine, but then it is only
> > installed for in my home directory. What is the difference in the
> > way that SuSE sets up X and/or Java from the way it was on my
> > Debian installation?
>
> I don't know anything about Debian, but if your window system was
> started as one user, and you try to start an X app as another user--
> the result is what you see. That's normal X behavior (or at least I
> assume "normal" because it's worked that way on every system I've
> used since the late '80s).

I don't know about much else besides Debian and that was how I've been 
installing jEdit for the last year. It's not just Java apps either; I 
could run any X app as root there and have it work. I remember because 
there was an issue with k3b that it would only work if started by root.

> Not sure what "only installed for in my home directory" means. If
> you want to edit a file that you wouldn't normally have write perms
> on, why not just change it while editing and then change it back?
> That's what I usually do :-)

"Only installed for in my home directory", means that it's not installed 
into '/usr/local/', allowing the program to be used by all users, it's 
installed into '/home/scragz'. If you start the installer as root, it 
makes an installation for everyone. If you start it as a user, it only 
makes an installation for that user.

> And FWIW, I'm using SuSE 9.1 on my primary desktop.

And do you have jEdit installed in '/home/hassan/jedit'?

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