Re: gnuclient problem with XAUTHORITY, ssh connections

Richard> xemacs is started on host "bob" in a gnome session and Richard> XOpenDisplay uses implicitly Richard> DISPLAY=:0.0 Richard> and Richard> XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-XXXX/database Richard> for the connection. OpenSolaris does something similar. Richard> As a quick workaround, it is possible to do Richard> cat .Xauthority >> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-XXXX/database Richard> or equivalent using "xauth" before calling gnuclient. However Richard> the value of XAUTHORITY is not known within the ssh session so Richard> it is not quite so trivial to script this. Indeed. I've hacked up a "fixxauth" script that does xauth list | while read foo; do gnudoit "(shell-command \"xauth add $foo\")" done So I can do alice$ ssh -X bob bob$ fixxauth bob$ gnuclient I've got somewhere on my to-do list to work this into gnuclient itself, but I don't know when I'll get to it. mike _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta