Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment
*- On 8 Nov, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote about "Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment"
> On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
>> *- On 8 Nov, Patrick Kirk wrote about "Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment"
>> > I want to elegance of E with the usefulness of GNOME. But
>> > when I try to start GNOME from an eterm, I get this...
>> >
>> > $ panel
>> > /dev/dsp: Permission denied
>> >
>> > Anyone seen it before?
>>
>> I don't user either but this looks like a simple permission problem. By
>> default /dev/dsp is is owned by root with group audio. So your user
>> must be in the audio group. 'adduser <user> audio' should get you past
>> the above problem.
>
> I think you mean `addgroup <user> audio'.
No I don't.
% man adduser
NAME
adduser, addgroup - add a user or group to the system
[snip]
adduser --group [options] [--gid ID] group
addgroup [options] [--gid ID] group
adduser [options] user group
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[snip]
Add a system group
If adduser is called with the --group option, or addgroup
is called, a system group will be added.
A GID will be chosen from the range specified for system
UIDS in the configuration file. The GID can be overridden
with the --gid option.
The group is created with no users.
Add an existing user to an existing group
If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add
an existing user to an existing group.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> And check that /dev/dsp
> has group `audio' too.
>
Good advice.
>> You might have to restart X to get the group
>> noticed, use the 'id' command to check that the current shell knows you
>> are in the audio group.
>
> You'll have to log out and back in again to get it to work.
It has been my experience that if I add a user to a group and then open
a fresh xterm then the user is not recognized as in the group. If I
exit my X session and start it back up then the user is recognized as
belonging to the group. I don't know why, I haven't really
investigated it, but I am sure someone else can explain the details.
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Brian Servis
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