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Re: Changing the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 used by emacs --server
From: |
Sascha Wilde |
Subject: |
Re: Changing the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 used by emacs --server |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:59:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> - start an X11 server with -auth
>>> (which is what most display-managers or startx do nowadays)
>>
>> Yes, most display managers do that to start the display, but when
>> someone logs in they also adds the display's key to the user's
>> ~/.Xauthority file, so the XAUTHORITY var doesn't need to be set.
>
> Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately the gdm from Debain Etch in the
> setup here does not do so, but only sets XAUTHORITY. I'll try to fix it
> in my .xsession file.
For the records: I've put
xauth -f ~/.Xauthority merge $XAUTHORITY
unset XAUTHORITY
to my ~/.xsession and now everything works as expected.
Thanks again for putting me on the right track!
cheers
sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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