On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:19:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...]
> geany it seems might have a problem.
> But it wasn't installed so I just used packagekit to install all of it as I
> use it heavily writing g-codes, so lets try it live and in person:
>
> root@coyote:~# geany .Xauthority
> Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect:
> Connection refused
> Geany: cannot open display
>
> But it runs just fine as me, but cannot open my own .Xauthority,unknown file
> format error: No mention of permissions. error window won't copy/paste. Very
> small snapshot attached. It did go into its history and opened an OpenSCAD
> file it had last worked on before the reinstall which I closed, also shown
> in the snapshot if it clears the server.
I am confused.
In the first paragraph above, geany can't start because, as it says, it
can't connect to the server ("Unable to init server" is one of those
really silly error messages, but I disgress).
In the second, geany seems to be running, but refuses to open .Xauthority,
because it doesn't know what format it is. Well, that's right. It is a
binary blob and supposed to be that. Only grown-up editors can cope with
that (vim and Emacs will), but even then, you gotta know what you're doing.
Cheers
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