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From: Ned Harrison <ned.woody@cox.net>
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Subject: bad display name/xserver question
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I'm running 5.3-RELEASE-p2.

I am unable to open a terminal window in either windowmaker or the 
default twm window manager.  No error messages go to the log files.  
However after x crashes there will be output messages to the screen 
along these lines:

Xauth: (argu):1:  bad display name "nedsbsd.cox.net : 0" in "list" command

The nedsbsd is something I'm willing to change if needed.  I entered it 
months ago when I initially installed FreeBSD didn't know what the 
install program was asking for when it asked for a display name. I 
figured I could change it later.  I neglected to change it when it 
seamed to not cause problems.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.