Strange issue with fglrx/opengl

[walt]

On 03/14/2015 08:24 AM, Dwayne Rightler wrote:
> glxinfo/glxgears does not work from my user account:
> 
> darkomen at darkomen-desktop:~$ glxinfo
> name of display: :0
> Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig
> 
> darkomen at darkomen-desktop:~$ glxgears
> Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
> 
> 
> If I give local permissions and su to root it works as root:
> 
> darkomen at darkomen-desktop:~$ xhost +local:

I'm guessing you already know more about X than I do (I didn't know about
xhost until just now :) but here is what I do when I'm stumped:

I keep an unprivileged user named "tester" with almost nothing in his
home directory:  i.e. no .local or .config or .cache or .dconf/.gconf
directories, etc.

If something works when I'm logged in as "tester" but not as me, I start
copying the subdirectories in "tester"'s home directory one by one into
my own home directory until the broken feature starts working again.

(Of course, I move my own subdirectories out of the way before I do this.)

The last few times this has happened to me, the problem was some sort of
strangeness in my ~/.config/dconf/user file.