From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 20:45:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF9837B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718D043E65 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from 24-161-168-225.san.rr.com (24-161-168-225.san.rr.com [24.161.168.225]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g873jfr25080 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: xauth Message-ID: <20020906204129.Q680-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to read more and understand the DISPLAY variable when it comes to X (X11/XFree86/4.2.0/xauth, whatever). In my XF86Config file I have a section called Screen which later defines itself as Screen 0; is that related to xauth in any way? Could someone give me a URL -- preferably within www.xfree86.org or www.gnome.org -- to follow this stuff? When I startx (gnome, and by the way, how do I tell which version of gnome is running/starting up?) I get this error: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhost-here.san.rr.com:0" in "list" command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhost-here.san.rr.com:0" in "add" command The manpage for xauth says to either create a ~/.Xauthority file (since xdm is called by my /etc/tty file on ttyv8) or to setenv the variable XAUTHORITY but the manpage doesn't discuss the format for this. Thanks to a kind soul that can turn on my light bulb. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message