Re: How do you use su under X?
"Moore, Paul" <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com> writes:
| >From: glhenni@cs.sandia.gov[SMTP:glhenni@cs.sandia.gov]
| >Cookies are just random keys that are assigned to an X session (by
| >xdm) when you log in. In order to display anything in that session you
| >have to have that key.
|
| That's a bit odd - I don't use xdm, just startx from the console...
|
| Nevertheless, thanks for the explanation.
Same idea, except your cookie is created in the startx script by an
xauth command. Just take a look at the startx script, e.g.,
more `which startx`
Gary
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