Re: Xauthority

[Dima <dima@eris.dev.null>]

>>BG Lim wrote:
 >Installing Xfree3.3 form bo-updates gives me Xauthority as well. My
 >question is, how do i use it to authorise other users to display on the
 >same server?
 >
 >I know the xauth program is used but I have followed the instructions in
 >the man page but still I can't get it to work.

cd ~
xauth add :0 . `mcookie`
xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -auth ".Xauthority"

if this is what you're asking about.  xinit thinks any argument that is
a path is the X server to run, so you need to have quotes around
~.Xauthority

HTH
--
Dimitri


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