Re: Changing the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 used by emacs --server

[Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>]

Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 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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