[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#598097: eeepc-acpi-scripts: vga toggling not working: `xrandr -q`: No protocol specified

[Ben Armstrong]

On 12/11/10 12:34 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> What display manager and DE are you using?

gdm3 and LXDE (openbox).

> It is owned by by my user.
> 
>         $ ls -l /home/paul/.Xauthority 
>         -rw------- 1 paul paul 1238 12. Nov 00:15 /home/paul/.Xauthority

OK. This is very strange:

synrg at shade:~$ su -
Password:
root at shade:~# xeyes           # a nice quick test if display works :)
root at shade:~# xauth
Using authority file /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-synrg-MXsbdM/database
xauth> exit
root at shade:~# export XAUTHORITY=/dev/null
root at shade:~# xauth
Using authority file /dev/null
xauth> exit
root at shade:~# xeyes           # even after pointing at a
                              # bogus XAUTHORITY, xeyes still shows!
                              # say what?

Ben