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[pygame] root privileges when running pygame
Hi,
I'm attempting to run pygame but it says:
pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal
The source code is pretty simple:
import pygame
from time import sleep
d=pygame.display.set_mode((500,500))
d.fill((255,255,0))
pygame.display.update()
sleep(5)
...
when I run this I expect to see a yellow window. What I get is a
fullscreen with yellow only if I run this sudo or as root.
Why doesn't it just create a window? Or how do I force it?
This is on my linux ppc. Using XP I get a yellow window.
I compiled Python, PyGame, Numeric, SDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf from scratch
with no customisations.
from what I've read SDL doesn't need root priv's to do any of this.
Darrell
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