291698 - xulrunner installed as root will only open an empty (see through) window when lanching xul apps as a regular user

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: XULRunner, defect)

Description

[Rémi Cardona]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla XULRunner 1.8b2 2005042305

I created an ebuild for gentoo which basically just copies the content of the
tarball to /opt/xulrunner and symlinks /usr/bin/xulrunner to
/opt/xulrunner/xulrunner.

When launching `xulrunner mybrowser/application.ini` as a user, XULRunner opens
an empty window (just WM borders and nothing inside, I can see and click on
other apps under this window)

However, if I launch it with root first, then launching it as a regular user
works fine. Removing xulrunner from my system with portage leaves those three
files :
stratos xulrunner # find
.
./components
./components/xpti.dat
./components/compreg.dat
./chrome
./chrome/app-chrome.manifest


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run the xul app as root
2. then run it as a user
Actual Results:  
Mybrowser-0.2 worked fine

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is something we intend to fix for 1.9, but it probably won't be fixed for
1.8 (the developer preview). The problem is generating the app-chrome.manifest
from installed-chrome.txt. The solution is to run some variation of "xulrunner
-register" when installing (this would be an RPM post-install script, I don't
know how that maps to debian packages).

The -register and -unregister flags will also be needed to register xulrunner as
a GRE provider in /etc/gre.conf (doesn't work yet, but planned for 1.8).

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

WFM with recent branch and trunk nightlies.