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Re: /dev/tty perms for xlinks2



On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> A few days ago xlinks2 was mentioned on this list and I decided to give 
> it a try.
> 
> When I try to run it from within X as a normal user, no problem.
> 
> When I try to run it outside of X as root, no problem.
> 
> When I try to run it outside of X as a normal user, I get an error about 
> opening /dev/tty0 because of permission issues.
> 
> westk@canuhold:~$ ls -l /dev/tty0
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 0 2007-03-07 10:04 /dev/tty0
> 
> I could change the group to "tty" or something and then add my normal 
> user into that group, but is there perhaps a better/safer/more-canonical 
> way?
> 

Kind of an OT question sorry, but how can you run xlinks2 outside of
X? I thought that TTY terminal sessions didn't support images?



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