Unable to open application with administrative privilege

**uzumakifahim** · December 7th, 2014

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with just only one admin account. Previously, I needed to start "Geany" with administrative privilege. For that reason, I started Geany from terminal using "gksu geany" command. Now, I want to start Geany without administrative privilege. The problem is, when I simply click on the Geany icon it's giving me the following message :

Code:

Geany tried to access the Unix Domain socket of another instance running as another user.
This is a fatal error and Geany will now quit.

I just want to get rid of this annoying message and start Geany without any administrative privilege. Please help anyone to solve this.

**ajgreeny** · December 7th, 2014

Do you get the same error if you start geany in terminal with command geany?

**uzumakifahim** · December 8th, 2014

Thanks for the reply. No I don't get any error when I start Geany from terminal, but when I want to start Geany without terminal, I face this error message.

**mc4man** · December 8th, 2014

Where is this icon that you are clicking on?

**nerdtron** · December 8th, 2014

Geany could already be running another instance/process.

Code:

 ps aux | grep geany

Try to kill the pocess.

**ajgreeny** · December 9th, 2014

Is it impossible to have more than one instance of geany running at any time? I've never used it as far as I can remember, and have no idea if you can or not.

**nerdtron** · December 9th, 2014

Originally Posted by ajgreeny

Is it impossible to have more than one instance of geany running at any time? I've never used it as far as I can remember, and have no idea if you can or not.

I'm not sure. But at least could be a reason why geany won't launch. Just suggesting ways to reduce the variables

**uzumakifahim** · December 11th, 2014

Originally Posted by nerdtron

Geany could already be running another instance/process.

Code:

 ps aux | grep geany

Try to kill the pocess.

This is the O/P and still showing the error message.

Code:

fahim     3451  0.0  0.0   4680   820 pts/1    S+   06:52   0:00 grep --color=auto geany

**mc4man** · December 11th, 2014

Originally Posted by uzumakifahim

This is the O/P and still showing the error message.

Code:

fahim     3451  0.0  0.0   4680   820 pts/1    S+   06:52   0:00 grep --color=auto geany

that means it's not running.

Could you post how you're starting geany as a user

If you go this what happens -
gtk-launch geany

If you log out & into a guest session can you start geany normally?