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The next chapter in wireless problems: difference between Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10?



Don Levey wrote:
>> Don Levey wrote:
>>> I got what ended up
>>> being a permissions error on .ICEauthority (being owned by root - but
>>> I'm not using ICWwm so what gives?)
>> .ICEauthority has nothing to do with ICWwm, it's an X thing, related to
>> .Xauthority.
> 
> Ah, that would explain it, then.  So why should root be writing that file?

You must have sudo'd something that used X, but for whatever reason it kept
your environment (specifically, $HOME)

Matt






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