> Subject: XFree 4: xauth says dispaly :0.0 is invalid

Your Subject: disagrees with your text:

> a new .Xauthority file because xauth thinks :0. is a "bad" display. 
> message stating that ":0." is a bad display.  If I use localhost:0. for
> start-up scripts to use that instead of :0.  According to the X docs,
> :0. should be a valid display for local X servers.

Is it :0.0 or :0. that it's getting upset at?  It wouldn't surprise me
a bit if :0.0 worked and :0 worked but :0. didn't.  (Whether it should
is another issue.  I run X Consortium X11R6.4 (on display 1 for
historical reasons) and all three syntaxes work for me - ":1", ":1.",
and ":1.0".)

I'd recommend trying giving a screen number, or getting rid of the dot.

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B