X weirdness

Sridhar M.A. mas at mylug.org
Tue Mar 28 13:38:44 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:21:19PM +0200, albi wrote:
   > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:41:18 +0530
   > "Sridhar M.A." <mas at mylug.org> wrote:
   > 
   > >    > Second, when gnome failed to write to some configuration file
   > >    > (IIRC, Xauthority was not writable). I had to manually change the
   > >    > permissions on that file.
   > >    > 
   > > Strangely, there is .Xauthority in my ~. Could it be the reason?
   > 
   > i've seen problems with ~/.ICEauthority
   > (looked like it happened after using konqueror in gnome)
   > 
   > removing ~/.ICEauthority solved the problem
   > 
FWIW,

  /home/mas$ ls -A

  .bash_history  .esd_auth  .gconfd/  .gnome2_private/           .xsession-errors
  .dmrc          .gconf/    .gnome2/  .sudo_as_admin_successful


There is no ~/.ICEauthority file either.

Regards,

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