Hi: I have noticed that other people are having this same problem now with Xauthority suddenly not allowing certain appz -- even GNOME, FI, to start. X starts fine with non-MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1. The ~/.Xauthority file seems to be working fine. xauth seems to be working fine. I am presently trying to discover if my gdm group has the right cookies, etc. P.S.: I like this guy's X-Headers. ;>