Re: a MANPATH problem

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Dave Mallery wrote:
  >when Xman comes up, it does not see my MANPATH variable (so it seems)
  >and can only display the pages located in /usr/man.

Set and export MANPATH in .xsession or .xinitrc (.xsession is used when
you log in through xdm, .xinitrc when you used startx).  If you want the
change to be made for all users, do it instead in /etc/X11/Xsession.
Check the xbase documentation.

  >also, i have this problem when running emacs on an xterm in SU:
  >
  >/home/dmallery>>emacs
  >Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
  >Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
  >emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
  >Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
  >Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
  >connections from your machine.

Check out xauth.  

You need to tell root what authorisation you are using to talk to the
X server, so that it can share it.  For example:

$ su
# xauth merge ~dmallery/.Xauthority


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