Re: Running GIMP as a user

[David Puryear <dayear@codenet.net>]

Hi,

On 08-Aug-97 Will Lowe wrote:
     On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
     
     > Certain X apps like GIMP only seem to like being run as root (in this
     case I
     > can run GIMP as a user but I cannot open any files, nor can I perform
     > editing tasks on a new one).
     > 
     > What is the reasoning behind this? Also, is there a way to change this
     so
     > that I can run this software as a user?
     
     I seem to recall having some trouble till I played around with the gimprc
     files. I compiled the source tho rather than downloading the package.
     
Before you run new gimp-0.99.10, you should delete ~/.gimp which contain
gimprc in it. Make sure you don't have anything in ~/.gimp first.:)
When you run gimp for the first time as any user, gimp will create new ~/.gimp
with .gimprc in it. I'm running debian gimp-0.99.10 just fine.:)

        Cheers,
        David


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