Hi Samuel. Yes. My bad, The child term, is started by firing up the term as root, and then doing a su into the foo user. At which point, the test then does a firefox -p On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/18/2016 12:57 PM, bruce wrote: >> >> Test laptop. login as root, start FF from the menu no prob. >> >> Start a term as user foo. Try to start FF from the term, and get gconf >> errors. >> > How are you starting the terminal? It sounds like you are root, but trying > to run a terminal using a different user. You have to be very careful as > some environment variables and such get carried over and can cause issues > with the new user session. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx