On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dylan Smith <dylan.ah.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While we are on the topic of additional things to fix in help afterwards, I
> am wondering why we bother checking if $XAUTHORITY being a
> "$HOME/.Xauthority" OR "". Isn't it enough to just check if $DISPLAY is
> non-empty, or am I missing a case.  Anyway $XAUTHORITY =
> "/var/run/gdm/auth-for-dylan-0k2JS2/database" for me on debian and ubuntu,
> so this condition doesn't work for me at all.

A double check here is reasonable because if we launch a X-based browser in
non-X environment, everything will fail, users will got confused.

But On my box(Slackware), there is no $XAUTHORITY at all... But I see a
XDG_SESSION_COOKIE which might be present in every X session. I'm not
familiar in this area so it's just my guessing.

-- 
Cheers,
Grissiom

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