help-gnu-emacs
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: emacs and emacsclient on different displays


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: emacs and emacsclient on different displays
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:07:26 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> Should I be able to run emacs and emacsclient on different displays?

Yes.

> host1 % echo $DISPLAY
> localhost:14.0
> host1 % emacsclient -s test1 -c foo
> Waiting for Emacs...X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> *ERROR*: Connection lost to X server `localhost:14.0'

Does "xterm" bring up an xterm?  Could it be that your original "emacs"
was started with a different .Xautority file, maybe?
I.e. compare $XAUTHORITY in each cases (ideally it should be
empty/undefined in each case).


        Stefan


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]