From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changing the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 used by emacs --server Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:59:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237915337 27433 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2009 17:22:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 24 18:23:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmALQ-0001u4-IJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:23:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmAK3-0000j0-LB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:21:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm9ww-00088Z-HD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm9wv-00086t-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49253 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lm9wv-00086X-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail2.sha-bang.de ([78.47.120.114]:2317 helo=mail.sha-bang.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lm9wt-00043r-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.local (xdslr147.osnanet.de [82.149.187.147]) by mail.sha-bang.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0932652; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:57:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.local with local (Sha Bang MUA v.0711184.68) ID 1Lm9yG-0005xO-BG; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:59:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Sascha Wilde's message of "Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:44:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109803 Archived-At: Sascha Wilde wrote: > Stefan Monnier 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 -- Sascha Wilde "Gimme about 10 seconds to think for a minute..."