Bug 36429

Summary: Improve error message when authentication fails
Product: xorg Reporter: Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon>
Component: Lib/XlibAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: minor    
Priority: low    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Jonathon Jongsma 2011-04-20 09:45:30 UTC 
In the past I have been able to run an xlib-based program from a virtual console (assuming I have a valid X session on display :0.0) with a simple command such as:
$ DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm

After upgrading to gdm3, I am unable to do this because gdm3 apparently sets an XAUTHORITY var to a file under /var/run/gdm3/...  Which is fine -- I just need to set XAUTHORITY to the proper value when I launch an app from a virtual console.  The problem is that the error message I got did not give any indication that the auth token was the problem.  It would be nice if the error message was a bit more helpful than this:

$ DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr
No protocol specified
Can't open display: :0.0
Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-09 02:11:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25722 ***

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