HOWTO: The Best Way To Play Games On Ubuntu

[mikeym]

OK.

I'm not sure why that last command didn't work! The problem everyone is having is that they don't have permission to start a new XServer on display :1


The command I gave you gives permission to allow access. First off all to remove what I did before type

xauth remove ubuntu/unix:1

Then could you show me what you get when you type

xauth list

but you're best to remove the long numbers when you post it for security reasons!

[mikeym]

OK.

I think I probably should have used your hostname for the xauth command. What I've given you is mine - I was thrown because mine is still my default ubuntu.

Try this instead;

xauth add $(hostname)/unix:1 . $(mcookie)

[ZylGadis]

mikeym, there is an old (about 2 years or so) HOWTO somewhere around here that does exactly what you are trying to do, works every time, etc. If you want to be helpful, find and resurrect that thread. You can learn from it for your own scripts, instead of going the way of trial and error.

There is just too much reinventing the wheel in the FLOSS community.

[mikeym]

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't found that HOWTO before. It gave me a simpler solution to the authorization command I was looking for. (although I believe the one above would work just as well.) (edit) Just noticed that the post you mentioned missed out exactly the same step I did in my script )

In terms of reinventing the wheel I'm not trying to create anything spectacularly original. There was a project to do exactly what my script does but it's no longer active. I just wanted to share what I find to be the most useful script on my computer - I originally wrote it for myself.

I hadn't anticipated how tricky getting it to install would be (much harder than the script itself) and I could have just given instructions to do what the script does but I thought it would be nicer if it did it for you.

Well I can't see any problems with the script now so I'd love to hear back form anyone who's tried it again and see if it's worked.

[KIAaze]

And where is that other thread doing the same thing?

[pizpot]

Mikeym, the script worked fine for me. (7.10) Thanks for it, I saw the other thread and didn't want to do all the steps.

(had a heck of a time logging in to this forum and having it stick past redirections , or I'd have replied sooner)

[peddy]

having the same error as everybody else...

[cdsboy]

Ya it only works for me if i use

xauth add $(hostname)/unix:1 . $(mcookie)

every time i start the system up

[peddy]

me too. I forgot to edit my previous post.

[mikeym]

Do you have any unusual setups such as 2 monitors? You're not accessing the machine from a remote location or anything?

Could you give me the errors displayed?