Re: [Pan-users] running pan with a changed $HOME env variable

[Søren Boll Overgaard]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:24:17AM +0200, Christophe Lambin wrote:
> Søren Boll Overgaard [13/08/02 23:56 +0200]:
> > address@hidden ~]$ export HOME=/home/boll/tmp                          
> > [23:37]
> > address@hidden /home/boll]$ pan                                        
> > [23:38]
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > (pan:581): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
> > address@hidden /home/boll]$
> > 
> > As you will notice pan starts just fine, before $HOME is changed, but
> > afterwards it refuses to start. I am running pan 0.12.1.
> > 
> > Should I consider this a bug or a feature?
> 
> Neither: this is just how X works. You'd run into this problem for any
> X-based application, not just Pan.
> 
> Do 'man X' and look at the section on access control.  If you really want to 
> do this, I think you can do something like the following (but you're bound 
> to run into other issues):
> 
>       $ export XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority
>       $ export HOME=/home/boll/tmp
>       $ pan

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

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