From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 19:53:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A664616A403 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:53:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.184.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699F013C45A for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:53:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l42JrbL8027122; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:53:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from localhost (stephen@localhost) by math.missouri.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l42JrbO3027119; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:53:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 14:53:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20070502144925.J23648@math.missouri.edu> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:53:38 -0000 On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >> Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had >> created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem >> completely, I don't think this is user friendly. > > I think I ran into this once a while back, I don't know what is the > correct solution. Perhaps you could put in some kind of "setenv XAUTHORITY .Xlocalauthority" in a script somewhere. Actually this one can bite you quite badly. If you are running X, and then you login from somehwere else, and then go back to the X session, then suddenly all your X commands like xterm will completely stop working. It can be really disconcerting if you don't know what caused it, and I can see a large number of help messages being generated on the various bulletin boards.