[MPlayer-users] gmplayer and SUID

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 21 July 2003, Juan C. Gallardo wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> To be able to use mplayer fullscreen I had to set the SUID bit of the
> program.

Huh? That's nonsense. Both mplayer and gmplayer work perfectly without the
SUID bit set.

> Once I did this mplayer works just fine for users, but gmplayer stop working
> because something about the GTK and the SUID bit.

And that something would be?

[...] 
> But even if I have tried to do this a couple of times, afraid of a mistake,
> still doesn't work.
> Someone have a different idea, or knows where Is the mistake?

I'd guess you have messed up your X environment (i.e. display permissions),
but that's only my wild guess, since you provide virtually no information
that could help to isolate the cause.

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