Pidgin won't run as USER

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:28 -0400, Jim wrote:
> lostson wrote:
> > On Monday 17 March 2008 03:56:26 pm Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >   
> >> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 13:20 -0400, Jim wrote:
> >>     
> >>> FC8 x86_64.
> >>> Pidgin will only run as 'root',  Why ??
> >>>       
> >> Saying "it doesn't run" doesn't tell us anything that would help to
> >> answer your question. Try to be more precise. What happens when you run
> >> it as a user? It doesn't start? it crashes or freezes? it won't connect
> >> to your account? it gives an error message?
> >>
> >> poc
> >>     
> >
> >  As your user in a terminal run pidgin and see what it says, or post any error 
> > messages here.
> >
> >   
> Nothing , it just goes to the next prompt with no output.

Is there any possibility that it's already running? To check, do this:

pgrep -fl pidgin

It might be being started by your desktop session. If it's already
running you'll get the bouncing icon for a while but it won't start a
new instance.

poc