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authorSimon Josefsson2002-08-28 15:12:00 +0000
committerSimon Josefsson2002-08-28 15:12:00 +0000
commitbf770132a94fb1faa69f3b4e84a2570a6289b1d8 (patch)
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parent2c37653c705b67fd6228d9331e66eec20c757ccf (diff)
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(Fx_open_connection): Improve help when X connection
fails, xhost is insecure and xauth is better.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/xfns.c5
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. */)
5370 if (!NILP (must_succeed)) 5370 if (!NILP (must_succeed))
5371 fatal ("Cannot connect to X server %s.\n\ 5371 fatal ("Cannot connect to X server %s.\n\
5372Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.\n\ 5372Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.\n\
5373Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit\n\ 5373Also use the `xauth' program to verify that you have the proper
5374connections from your machine.\n", 5374authoritization information needed to connect the X server.\n\
5375An insecure way to solve the problem may be to use `xhost'.\n",
5375 SDATA (display)); 5376 SDATA (display));
5376 else 5377 else
5377 error ("Cannot connect to X server %s", SDATA (display)); 5378 error ("Cannot connect to X server %s", SDATA (display));