On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:19:31AM +1000, Scott Burns wrote: > In my experience, changing the hostname while X is running is a Very Bad > Thing. X authorisations are based on hostname so you will probably not > be able to open any new windows after the change. I've had mixed > results with restarting X and found a reboot the best option. Possible, but I can't reproduce that problem in my system. Anyway, it should be possible to correct the authorization: $ xauth list $DISPLAY # hostname newhostname $ xauth add :0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 <oldcookie> Regards, Luciano Rocha
