Re: Changing the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 used by emacs --server

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately the gdm from Debain Etch in the
> setup here does not do so, but only sets XAUTHORITY.

That's very odd.  I've been using Debian's gdm since Sarge and it's
never done that to me.

> I'll try to fix it in my .xsession file.  But I still think that it
> would be handy if one could tell emacs to reevaluate XAUTHORITY or to
> change the used xauth file by any other means...  :)

You have the source so you can make it do that, but I don't think it's
worth the trouble, since it's a lot easier to solve it outside Emacs.


        Stefan