On 2017-06-16, Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Ooops! ... Well, I moved the .Xauthority file aside and restarted X to > create a new one. Obviously it has one line with my hostname in it. But > > $ xauth list > fresh.yem/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ... > advancedsearch.virginmedia.com:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ... > > And only now did I notice that the magic cookie is identical for both > entries. This mystifies me. (BTW apparently Virgin has historically used > a bit of DNS hijacking so I bunged this line into /etc/hosts before > restarting X. > > 127.0.0.1 advancedsearch.virginmedia.com )
It'll be because of your hosts entry. Try xauth -n list instead.
