Re: "GTK - WARNING ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/21/2011 02:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote:
>     I recently installed squeeze on a laptop with an ethernet
> connection.

Wired, you mean?

>              When I run iceweasel from "root terminal," it

Bad, bad, bad form.  Just like logging into Windows as Administrator.

Don't do that.

> works sometimes, and seems to refuse to connect to the outside
> world other times.

Are you sure that the network connection is active?

>     This may be connected to the message I see when I do successfully
> use and exit from iceweasel:
>
> Gdk - WARNING  ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

Nah.  That's an old and common GUI error cuse, I think, by Flash.

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