commit 34cdd1dcc58adc55e04549698349c060f6378648 Author: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com> Date: Tue Aug 23 01:55:32 2011 -0400 [Linux] Document why we need to set XAUTHORITY in this script Otherwise, some GDM user who doesn't know why it needs to be set here will remove this chunk of script someday. --- src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh b/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh index 33961c9..09013a9 100755 --- a/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh +++ b/src/RelativeLink/RelativeLink.sh @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ if [ $1 ]; then printf "\nDebug enabled.\n\n" fi +# If XAUTHORITY is unset, set it to its default value of $HOME/.Xauthority +# before we change HOME below. (See xauth(1) and #1945.) XDM and KDM rely +# on applications using this default value. if [ -z "$XAUTHORITY" ]; then XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority export XAUTHORITY