On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov wrote:
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:43:02 -0400
> From: "Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Karel Bemelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>
> Karel Bemelmans wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Steve C wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:19:11 +0100
> > > From: Steve C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> > >
> > > What you are missing I think, is the env variable display.
> > > With RH 5.1 / Xfree 3.2.2I have never needed this, but at
> > > work Sun Solaris, DEC need the environment variable DISPLAY set
> >
> > For Linux the DISPLAY=":0.0", like he has it, works just fine.
> >
> > I think he hasn't installed the right server for his card and that that is
> > causing the errors.
>
> But why xemacs starts OK from not su-ed xterm?
>
> Those error messages about invalid MIT_MAGIC<...> are printed
> only if I su to root in xterm and then start xemacs...
Ah, sorry, but that part wasn't included in the mail I replied to...
Karel
Karel Bemelmans, Narfum Inc.
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