[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#628141: Bug#628141: reopening 628141

[Tomáš Janoušek]

Hello,

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 07:29:39PM -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> What exactly is breaking for you with respect to X when the hostname
> changes? You get inconsistencies between $DISPLAY and reality, which messes
> up local X11 applications?

No, $DISPLAY is fine, but the auth cookies have hostname in them, and if it's
changed, applications can no longer connect to X. I just tried to change the
hostname on a friend's Ubuntu box, and it did not prevent the apps from
working there, but they said something about being unable to connect to X and
trying session manager instead (and it was slower). As I have no session
manager here (just a window manager), such a workaround is probably
unavailable.

Regards,
-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Liskni_si, http://work.lisk.in/