Restarting X and screen

2009-06-25 Thread Bruce Edge
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Re: Restarting X and screen

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Scogland
That should be because the shells in the screen sessions are authorized for the original X session, but not the new one. Usually using "xauth merge ~/.Xauthority" or whatever file contains your x authority information should work. Unfortunately you'll have to do that in each shell inside screen t

Restarting X and screen

2009-06-25 Thread David Collins
Hi, I use 5 different screen sessions for various different purposes on my work computer (linux open suse). When the X server is restarted and I re-attach the screen sessions I can no longer open programs that use X. The error I get is "cannot open display :0.0" The xterm without the screen sessio