[vlc-devel] running vlc (w/GUI) under different user account
U.Mutlu
for-gmane at mutluit.com
Fri Sep 25 18:30:20 CEST 2015
[this was initially posted to the "general" list, but after posting I saw that
there is no traffic since June, so now reposting to developer list]
Hi,
on my local linux box with X desktop (actually LXDE),
I have two user accounts: user1 and user2.
Logged in to the desktop as user1 I can start the webbrowser firefox
with the credentials of user2 by first giving permission to user2 to use the X
display:
user1 at box:/tmp$ xhost +SI:localuser:user2
then in the shell switching to user2 and starting the command
su user2
firefox &
This works fine.
I tried the same method also with vlc but I get errors:
user2 at box:/tmp$ vlc &
VLC media player 2.2.0-rc2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.0-rc1-118-g22fda39)
[00000000012f3118] core libvlc error: cannot open config file
(/home/user1/.config/vlc/vlcrc): Permission denied
Ie. vlc still tries to access the config files of user1.
Isn't that a bug?
What is the solution or workaround to this problem?
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Thx
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