[Solved]Opera won't open

[donjames]

I am trying to get Opera to run under LXDE on a new install of Funtoo Linux.  The install runs okay with no errors and Opera appears in the "internet" menu.  When I click on it nothing happens.

How do I solve this problem?

 

Thanks,

donjames

[cardinal]

Root user:

opera --no-sandbox

You must edit the opera.desktop file to use the menu shortcut in root account.

Regular user:

opera

Opera Version:56.0.3051.36  runs fine on my lxde mix-ins system.

[Oleg Vinichenko]

open terminal emulator, then, there run opera and look what you getting

[donjames]

It gives:

[646:646:1007/212946:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without -- no-sandbox is not supported.  See https:crbug.com/638180.

 

[donjames]

Hi Cardinal,

Where do I put "opera --no-sandbox" in the opera.desktop file?

Opera launches from the command line with:

opera --no-sandbox

Edited October 8, 2018 by donjames
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[cardinal]

I open as root user from lxterminal with my text editor Leafpad.

leafpad /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop

On line 7 change

Exec=opera %U

to

Exec=opera --no-sandbox %U

File/Save/Quit

[donjames]

Hi,

It worked!

Thanks to everyone who helped.

donjames

[palica]

It would be wise not to run opera as root user.

[NikosAlexandris]

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