On 2011-07-22, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Liam O'Toole wrote
gdm should create .Xauthority for you,
without the need to manually do the xauth stuff.
That's what I thought too
after reading the xauth man page
Normally xauth is not used
to
Liam O'Toole wrote:
I think something is broken in the terminal emulator.
You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself
(presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog),
Yes
gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2
lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2
xterm
Liam O'Toole wrote
gdm should create .Xauthority for you,
without the need to manually do the xauth stuff.
That's what I thought too
after reading the xauth man page
Normally xauth is not used
to create the authority file entry
in the first place; the program
On 2011-07-18, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Cousin Stanley wrote :
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12
debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having
invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do
anything X related from a terminal
Liam
Liam O'Toole wrote:
That strongly suggests that the problem lies within the sid guest.
How do you start X there? Usually one would use startx or a display manager,
launch a terminal within the session, and launch programs from the
terminal at will.
I'm using gnome 2.30.2 and login
On 2011-07-17, Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote:
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12
debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having
invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do
anything X related from a terminal
(...)
Are you running
Cousin Stanley wrote :
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12
debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having
invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do
anything X related from a terminal
Liam O'Toole replied :
Are you running applications
entirely within
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12
debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having
invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do
anything X related from a terminal
I think it started after updating xorg in the sid guest,
but I don't know that for sure
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