Re: What happened to this list?

[Donald D Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 07:32, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:12:01AM -0700 or thereabouts, Donald D Henson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 00:07, Kevin Francis wrote:
> > > Back when I was subscribed last year it was really noisy, but ... it 
> > > appears to be dead now ... either that or I am somehow not receiving 
> > > mail because of procmail again.
> > > 
> > > If anyone sees this can they just reply (to my address)?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > I got it but FWIW I had the very same question yesterday. I posted a
> > problem asking for assistance and didn't get any response at all. Maybe
> > all the 'helpers' have gone.
> 
> The one about "connection to ":0:0" refused by server"? 

No, my question was the one about the Gnome Settings Daemon.
> 
> Possibly no-one knew the answer. I presume from the mention of
> YaST that you are using SuSE, about which I know less than
> nothing. I have never seen an error message from "Gnome SuperUser"
> so I suppose it is a SuSE thing. 
> 
> I delete questions I know I can't answer and will not be able
> to answer. I answer questions I can answer without spending too
> much time. And I leave the hard ones until the weekend in the
> hope that someone else will answer; but knowing that I have
> more time at the weekend to do a little research. This question
> fell into that category because the "connection to :0:0" thing
> does ring a bell, but not in connection with a Gnome SuperUser.
> 
> You normally see that message when another user -- any other
> user -- tries to run a command which involves drawing things
> on the X server which your user owns. It doesn't normally
> have Gnome SuperUser prepended, though. 
> 
> So for example, create a test user or two. Log in as one test
> user. Start X (Gnome, KDE, plain old X). "su othertestuser".
> Try to run any graphical app. You'll get that message. 
> 
> Beyond that, I am at a loss because I don't know SuSE and I
> don't know this Gnome SuperUser thing. So that gets saved 
> for the weekend. Sorry about that :) 
> 
> Telsa

I appreciate your response but I wasn't complaining about not getting an
answer. I was just offering one possible explanation of why the list was
quiet. It was not my intention to offend anyone.

Don Henson