[CLUE-Tech] More INFO: Re: wierd vi behavior

[Dave Price]

Collin is correct - FYI, here is Klaus Knopper's responce (I am
running knoppix from a hard disk drive on the system in question:

<Klaus>

No, this is actually correct. You should unset the DISPLAY variable,
otherwise vim will try to check for mouse support by querying the X
server. If your SSH is set to not tunnel X requests (you can enable it
by saying ssh -X), the connection to your local X-Server will fail.

If you use X forwarding, you can enable mouse support in vim, and use
native cursor movement, cut&paste with the "set mouse*" options.

Of course, as root you don't have access to the DISPLAY anymore, if you
don't use a Xauthority-enabled version of su.

Just type
DISPLAY= vim filename
to disable X support in vim for that call.

Regards
-Klaus Knopper

</Klaus>

aloha,
dave

On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 08:53:18AM -0700, Collins wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:08 am, Dave Price wrote:
> > Cluebies:
> >
> > When I ssh into my debian/knoppix box and try to run 'vi' or
> > '/usr/bin/vim' i get:
> >
> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> > shutdown).
> >
> > This does not seem right.  Also, it only happens when I su to 'root' - I
> > can run vi fine as a normal user.
> >
> > Any idea what's going on?
> >
> 
> 1. You must have installed vim with X support.  Suggest reinstall without X 
> support.  When installed with X support, vim will attempt (among other 
> things) to update the window title area on exit.
> 
> 2. As for most root X things, xhost +localhost as normal user before vim as 
> root (or su -) user.  This, of course, has security implictions.
> 
> LOL,
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
> Athlon-XP gentoo 1.4_rc2 kde 3.1
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