On 2021-01-04 at 07:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 07:52:40PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >>> Bingo! That, rather than copying .Xauthority, gave me a fix. >> >> Huh? That is strange. I mean: great it worked for you, but I'd like >> to learn what is going on there :-) > > What don't you understand? In order for an X client to run, it > needs two pieces of information: the DISPLAY to talk to, and the > authorization to be allowed to talk. I parsed the preceding conversation as indicating that $ ln -sf /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority produced a setup that worked, but $ cp /home/auser/.Xauthority /root/.Xauthority produced one that didn't. That seems strange enough to me. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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