On 21/06/2023 01:41, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
X clients these days need that to talk to the X server. On my box,
for example:
tomas@trotzki:~$ hexdump -C .Xauthority
00000000 01 00 00 07 74 72 6f 74 7a 6b 69 00 01 30 00 12 |....trotzki..0..|
00000010 4d 49 54 2d 4d 41 47 49 43 2d 43 4f 4f 4b 49 45|MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE|
The ~/.Xauthority file contains *secrets*, see Xsecurity(7), so I would not encourage people to post its content. It should be enough to check that
file ~/.Xauthority
reports "X11 Xauthority data" or to try "xauth info". Almost certainly
xhost
output contains "SI:localuser:gene", so most of applications are working
without any issues. I would not be surprised if Gene has an immutable
file owned by root or something similar left from attempt to fix some
problem several years ago.
Gene, try
stat ~/.Xauthority
getfacl ~/.Xauthority
lsattr ~/.Xauthority
From the posted geany screenshot I suspect an issue with this file.
Perhaps the easiest way is to remove it, logout and login again. An
alternative is recreating and filling it using xauth(1).