Re: X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

[Markus Hoenicka <markus dot hoenicka at mhoenicka dot de>]

Am 2015-08-10 15:13, schrieb cyg Simple:
> On 8/10/2015 3:41 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> > At 2015-08-07 11:26, Jon TURNEY was heard to say:
> > > Is there anything unusual about your home directory?
> >
> > Well, we use roaming profiles here at work. This has caused problems
> > before, both in Cygwin and non-Cygwin apps. I've modified
> > /usr/bin/startxwin like this:
> >
> > $ diff /usr/bin/startxwin.orig /usr/bin/startxwin
> > 138c138,139
> > <         XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
> > ---
> > > #        XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
> > >         XAUTHORITY=/cygdrive/c/localdata/<username>/.Xauthority
> >
> > i.e. it now uses a local drive to store .Xauthority. With this change,
> > startxwin works without a hitch, and it is not any slower compared to
> > before the upgrade. I don't know what is particularly broken about my
> > $HOME as most Cygwin apps deal with it just fine:
> >
> > $ cygpath -w $HOME
> > \\<serverpath>\home\<username>\Eigene Dateien\home\<username>
>
> Corinna made changes which invalidates this value form for HOME 
> existing
> in Windows environment.  We've been arguing against the change.  This 
> is
> another example of why it should be left the way it has worked since 
> day 1.

I've noticed the discussion about those changes, but I don't fully 
understand the impact of them  (and hopefully I don't have to). But I 
don't think my problem argues against Corinna's changes because HOME 
does not exist in my Windows environment. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH exist 
though. I suppose HOME is set by some scripts in /etc as the docs 
suggest.

regards,
Markus


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