I have got Debian Hamm and X up and working and am really pleased. With help from the list I have got the recompile for SMP working and got X launching. However, I still have an X problem and can't work out the answer from the archives or the doc files I've found.
The problem is under fvwm but occurs under olwm too. I can launch emacs as a regular user (or su) from the window manager drop down menu but when I try to invoke it from the xterm command line I get: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key emacs: cannot connect to X server :0. I've tried resetting the environment variable DISPLAY from 0.0 to 0 and to psyctc1.sghms.ac.uk (address of the machine, vague recollections from using an Xserver on an Windoze box to access X clients on Sun (or maybe it was SG?) in the past). Something very similar happens with xedit. Archive entries seem to say something about an .Xauthority file which my ordinary user account doesn't have. Same thing happens after su in xterm though. I am sure I'm getting my permissions wrong but can't find the magic key or magic cookie. Anyone put me straight?! Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
