Re: wierd display problem
Re: wierd display problem
- Subject: Re: wierd display problem
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:46:30 -0700
On Apr 23, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Itai Seggev <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:35:35PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 19, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Itai Seggev <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> You're right, my old MBP had the same behavior. This caused all sorts of small
>>> glitches that I thought were just OSX/Fink, but now I know could be traced to
>>> the display. For some reason, the MacPorts emacs on my new MBP completely
>>> froze when the display was zero, which forced me to investigate and
>>> notice/identify the issue. It seems like some sort of authentication problem,
>>> as 'xhost +' would fix emacs.
>>>
>>> At any rate, I fixed this issue by adding the following to the start of my
>>> .xinitrc.d:
>>>
>>> DISPLAY=`launchctl getenv DISPLAY`
>>>
>>> I don't know if this could be integrated into xinit, but it worked for me!
>>
>> No, that can't be integrated into xinit because xinit needs to work in the general case as well.
>>
>> Most likely you are seeing some xauth errors. Your /var/log/system.log might have some helpful details. Also, you might want to delete ~/.Xauthority for good measure.
>>
>> Does disabling xauth (look in the security tab in X11's preferences) "fix" the problem?
>
> Yes, it does.
Ok, then that confirms that you've got xauth issues. /var/log/system.log should have more insightful information. Did you try deleting ~/.Xauthority?
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