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| author | Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> | 2002-08-28 15:12:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> | 2002-08-28 15:12:00 +0000 |
| commit | bf770132a94fb1faa69f3b4e84a2570a6289b1d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e45a786b81d6a955864b8c514046592b7756303 /src/xfns.c | |
| parent | 2c37653c705b67fd6228d9331e66eec20c757ccf (diff) | |
| download | emacs-bf770132a94fb1faa69f3b4e84a2570a6289b1d8.tar.gz | |
(Fx_open_connection): Improve help when X connection
fails, xhost is insecure and xauth is better.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/xfns.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/xfns.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/xfns.c b/src/xfns.c index caa54d97e2c..882d641e226 100644 --- a/src/xfns.c +++ b/src/xfns.c @@ -5370,8 +5370,9 @@ terminate Emacs if we can't open the connection. */) if (!NILP (must_succeed)) fatal ("Cannot connect to X server %s.\n\ Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.\n\ -Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit\n\ -connections from your machine.\n", +Also use the `xauth' program to verify that you have the proper +authoritization information needed to connect the X server.\n\ +An insecure way to solve the problem may be to use `xhost'.\n", SDATA (display)); else error ("Cannot connect to X server %s", SDATA (display)); |