Re: X authentication problen

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

Jon jabbed,

> X is running fine apart from one problem involving the .Xauthentication file. If I login as user
> bob and startx everything is fine. 

>I happily compiled vim-5.3 for the graphical interface. 

from source, or debian source?  I tried and failed on this . . .

>Now,
> if I su to root and try to run gvim I get the following error;
> 	
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> cannot open displayXlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

As bob,

xauth list $DISPLAY

will give you your cookie.  It is the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and the hex code

then  as root,

xauth add $DISPLAY <cookie> 

But I think hamm ended this problem for me; I used to have it, but it's 
gone now.

rick

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