On Jun 18,  5:26pm, Aidan Corey wrote:

> I use xdm, so I removed the following lines from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config:
>
> DisplayManager._0.authorize:  false
> DisplayManager*authComplain:  false
>
> Anyone know what they were doing there in the first place?

Standard X Consortium config. *shrug*

> I've no idea how to enable cookies when using startx.  Anyone?

Right, you have to arrange for X to get passed the -auth <filename> flag where
the filename is that of the cookie file. According to the X documentation
generating this file is left as an exercise for the reader. Of course you could
do it with xdm and then take a copy for use with startx.

Cheers

Rob

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