loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my xhost + . . . line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost + immediately before a program tries to

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm stumped again. I've lost my ability to control xhost for more than a minute or so. This is fairly recent. my xhost + . . . line in .xsession used to let me specify my common hosts, including localhost. No longer. It is necessary to do an xhost +

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHile I'm at it, should I be using something other than xhost? the fm's i rt 'd seem to suggest I should be using magic cookies instead. Yes. Here was a posting about this some time ago. I quote it below. Ciao, Martin From: Christian

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread hawk
Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key for the display $DISPLAY.

Re: loss of xauthority

1997-12-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin wrote, From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:48:19 + Subject: xauth +, not a good idea... If you don't trust every user on your machine, you'll need to learn a bit about xauth. xauth list $DISPLAY will list the key