Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:41, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:13, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > > > > I have 2 accounts on my freebsd-current machine. I use > > > > startx to start X11 as user kargl. If I then su to user > > > > sgk, I cannot fire up X clients. For example, > > > > > > Is $XAUTHORITY still set in the subshell? > > > Can both users read the Xauthority file? > > > > $XAUTHORITY is not set. Both users use I take this back. $XAUTHORITY was pointing at the wrong .Xauthority file. > > their defaults $HOME/.Xauthority. I used > > xauth to ensure the key for troutmask is > > the same for both users. > > Then it "ought" to work. > It works now that I that I fixed .cshrc to properly set $XAUTHORITY. Thanks for your help. -- Steve http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 06:52:24 UTC
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