Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:45:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: xauth Message-ID: <20020906204129.Q680-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>
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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
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