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Re: exmh and .Xauthority
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Fri Oct 25 17:08:57 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 12:56:58 -0000."
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Reply-To: maillard@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:39:25 -0400
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> I keep getting the security message when trying to run exmh.
> I am completely confused about how to get the .Xauthority
> file working. I even downloaded the emxh tar file to look
> at the misc/.Xauthority stuff. It keeps referring to an
> .xserverrc file. ??????????
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
here is what i did running xdm (now i have the feeling this might not work if you start X with xinit (startx) instead...)
add in your .xinitrc (or .Xclients if no .xinitrc in your home directory):
--
# so that exmh runs without this X unsecure stuff
XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
export XAUTHORITY
xhost -
--
hope this help...
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Julien Maillard maillard@vt.edu
Virginia Tech
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