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Re: exmh & Xauthority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Cyr)
Mon Nov 23 02:17:20 1998
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:17:59 -0700
From: Colin Cyr <ccyr@sycore.ml.org>
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> in my startx file (/usr/X11R6/bin) add the following line directly after the initial comment:
> mcookie|sed -e 's/^/add :0 . /'|xauth -q
>
> then in that same file, change the last line of the file (or whatever line calls xinit) to:
> xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -auth "$HOME/.Xauthority"
Just a comment on simplifying the above commands. This just gets rid of all the piping and having to invoke sed.
Use the following instead of: mcookie|...
xauth -q add :0 . `mcookie`
It generates the same thing.
Thanks for the suggestion Padraic, without it I'd be doomed to sending the output into the ether.
Now, the question that has to be asked is:
What did I miss to not have this included automatically, or what did RedHat miss when packaging X or xauth?
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Colin Cyr (ccyr at home dot com)
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