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