[PD] pidid and a camera dv/via usb converter on ubuntu

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:
> Husk 00 wrote:
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM, ydegoyon at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ydegoyon at gmail.com> <ydegoyon at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:ydegoyon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     it's not a real problem
>>     ( although you start pd in a strange environment,
>>     without $PWD )
>>
>>
>> It's true. Strangely  if I lauch pd with sudo it lost $PWD variable. 
>> If I lauch pd as root user (I mean sudo su - and then pd) every thing 
>> works fine.
>>
>>
>>
> it even works with sudo here,
> so your environment is very strange
> 

most likely it works fine because you are doing it without sudo.
afaiu, yves is running the entire X-session as root, whereas husk tries 
to run to X-session as user nad only run Pd as root.

i would not recommend anyone to run everything as root if they do not 
know what they are doing. (e.g. if setting the permissions of a device 
is already a problem, then running everything as root might create more 
harm than good). yes, i know that this sounds a bit elitist. i don't 
know how to put it into better words...

fgmasdr
IOhannes
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