A few programs I've got seem to suddenly have issues with connecting to the X server.
1) Cronjobs. I've got a Perl/Tk script that starts up every hour that basically takes input and writes it to an Activity Log, so I can track what I'm doing (useful. well, sometimes. :) ). With all previous X packages, this works just fine. With 4.2.0, the script is denied access to the X server, and the only way I've been able to grant it is to turn off access control. I also had a small wrapper script for cronjobs that temporarily turned off access control long enough to pop up a gdialog (think "xmessage workalike") for reminding me of something (yeah, yeah, I know, dubious, but I couldn't find any better way). xhost is denied access to the server now with 4.2.0, where previously it worked. 2) Icedock will not run unless I disable access control. Same thing - only started when I upgraded to 4.2.0. Is this a new retightening of X security, or a bug? If the former, how can I get X to allow these things to reconnect again? Despite my firewall, I don't exactly want to go around with access control completely disabled all the time. :) -- Joanne Hunter <http://menagerie.tf/~jrhunter/> Say No to HTML Mail!/"\ Of course, I don't know how interesting any of this really is, \ / but now you've got it in your brain cells so you're stuck with it. X --Gary Larson ASCII Ribbon Campaign/ \
