<div>On 11/01/2008, Chris Smith <<a href="mailto:ubuntu.com@chris.cs278.org">ubuntu.com@chris.cs278.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dave Walker wrote: > Chris Smith wrote: >> Joshua Scotton wrote: >>> I was getting the same error message until I changed this part >>> XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; >>> to >>> XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority; >>> >>> where user was the username of the person logged on and using screen :0 >>> >>> then it worked a treat >> Yeah the "~owner_of:0" needed to be changed to the user logged in on >> screen :0 ie. for myself it would be "~chris/.Xauthority" >> >> > > Surely this can be substituted with XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority ? > > Kind Regards, > Dave Walker > Assuming you are the user who is running the X session. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/"> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> Which i'm not... Thanks, I will give this a try when I get back. -- Kris Douglas       Softdel Limited Hosting Services       Web: <a href="http://www.softdel.net">www.softdel.net</a>       Mail: <a href="mailto:kris@softdel.net">kris@softdel.net</a>