Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-06 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Chris Evans wrote: Many, many thanks for your help... On 5 Aug 98, at 12:54, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the

another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Chris Evans
I have got Debian Hamm and X up and working and am really pleased. With help from the list I have got the recompile for SMP working and got X launching. However, I still have an X problem and can't work out the answer from the archives or the doc files I've found. The problem is under fvwm

Re: another Xauthority problem?

1998-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
First thing is: are you su-ing and then running emacs? When you su you lose your XAUTHORITY environment variable. The variables points to a file which is used to authenticate you to the X server. What's more, the permissions on xauthority files are set 600 so that only the user logged in can