From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Sewall\, Jason" <jason.sewall@intel.com>
Cc: 15037@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15037: Display can't be opened (display newer than emacs session)
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:19:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwviozh4bdt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C64EEADE742C444EA672808682DC050459B003C3@ORSMSX104.amr.corp.intel.com> (Jason Sewall's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:31:18 +0000")
>> What does M-: (getenv "XAUTHORITY") RET say in those two Emacs sessions?
> For the older session (in the original frame): "/var/run/gdm/auth-for-jsewall-jWCxJH/database"
> For a new session started from display :1.0, 'nil'.
There's your problem. You're using GDM3 which has the obnoxious habit
of putting your authorization keys in a separate file and setting
XAUTHORITY to point to it. So your session doesn't have access to the
keys you have in your ~/.Xauthority and your other sessions don't have access
to this display.
See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586685
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651431
Note that it's not just Emacs that suffers this way:
If M-x make-frame-on-display <RET> :1.0 <RET> fails for you, then try
(in that very same Emacs) to do M-x shell RET xterm --display :1.0 RET
it should fail in the same way.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 20:52 bug#15037: Display can't be opened (display newer than emacs session) Sewall, Jason
2013-08-07 0:03 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-07 17:39 ` Sewall, Jason
2013-08-07 8:32 ` Jan Djärv
2013-08-07 17:37 ` Sewall, Jason
2013-08-07 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-07 17:31 ` Sewall, Jason
2013-08-07 18:19 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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