RE: GnomeUI-WARNING **:

[br0ke math smsu edu (Erik)]

On 15-Sep-99 Matt Flynn wrote:
> This is the second time I've gotten the following messages when starting
> session managed Gnome apps:
> 
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
> 

don't eat the magic cookies, the system needs them.

man xhost

> 
> This is especially annoying during X startup since there seems to be
> some time-out mechanism functioning and it takes about 3-4 min to finish
> loading my desktop.
> 
> I've cleaned out my .gnome directory once and rebuilt my default
> session.  This seemed to help....for a while.
> 
> The correct apps eventually start up but placement and iconification
> states are messed up.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why this happens?
> 

because X doesn't like you. You need to tell it to like you with xhost

> Oh yea.... I'm running RedHat 5.2 and using the latest RedHat 5.2 Gnome
> rpms from www.gnome.org
> 

I'm sorry :)

> 
> any help would be appreciated
> 
> Matt Flynn
> 
> 

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