I have a work around. It turns out, if .Xauthority is unwriteable, it will put the auth file somewhere else and set the XAUTHORITY variable. Heh.
So log out of your window manager, then stop WDM. Remove .Xauthority and make it a directory. This cause WDM to create a different location and set the variable. What a PITA! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/829099 Title: synaptic-pkexec fails: cannot open display 0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/829099/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
