On 12/11/10 12:34 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> What display manager and DE are you using?

gdm3 and LXDE (openbox).

> It is owned by by my user.
> 
>         $ ls -l /home/paul/.Xauthority 
>         -rw------- 1 paul paul 1238 12. Nov 00:15 /home/paul/.Xauthority

OK. This is very strange:

sy...@shade:~$ su -
Password:
r...@shade:~# xeyes           # a nice quick test if display works :)
r...@shade:~# xauth
Using authority file /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-synrg-MXsbdM/database
xauth> exit
r...@shade:~# export XAUTHORITY=/dev/null
r...@shade:~# xauth
Using authority file /dev/null
xauth> exit
r...@shade:~# xeyes           # even after pointing at a
                              # bogus XAUTHORITY, xeyes still shows!
                              # say what?

Ben



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