Hi Kartik! On Wed 28 Nov 07, 8:58 AM, Kartik Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Try to upgrade libchm-bin, libchm-dev and libchm1 to 0.39-6 version and > let me know if it makes difference. But my root account and my girlfriend's account were able to view the chm file just fine. It's the same machine. In other words, xchm seems to work for two users on this machine, and doesn't work for one user on this machine.
That's why I thought blowing away the xchm dot-file would've worked. > > I was updating my system as root in an xterm. Absent mindedly, I opened > > xchm from that terminal, and it worked. I was able to view the chm (not the > > source code). > > > > Went back to a different xterm (my usual user) and I still could only see > > the html source in xchm. > > Interesting. Let me check with root. > > > First thing I did was to move ~/.xchm to ~/dot-xchm. Didn't help. > > Its config file, so will not make much difference. > > > Next thing I did was to see if it worked for my girlfriend's account on this > > machine. It did. > > Check which libchm is there too. It's the same machine. :) > > So the only account on this machine that xchm works for is my main user > > account. This is the only account on the machine that has *ever* used xchm > > in the past. I wouldn't normally use xchm as root, and my girlfriend > > doesn't even know what a chm file is. > > Please don't use xchm as root. Its not recommended to use root for > normal day to day activities. As I already mentioned above, I absent mindedly used an xterm that had a root shell. Thanks! Pete -- GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D Last night I dreamt of 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 "A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee [EMAIL PROTECTED] into theorems." -- Paul Erdös http://www.dirac.org
