[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz works only with sudo

[Christof Wolf]

Hi Jeremy,

I am running XQuartz 2.7.5 under Maverick, but I can't get it work properly. 
(I am on a Retina 11,3 Macbook Pro)

First of all, it takes a long time to start, xauth always gives me:

xauth: timeout in locking authority file /Users/Wolf/.Xauthority

it does not matter, if I remove .Xauthority or not, then it does give me:

Invalid  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
waiting for X sever to begin accepting connections
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key..
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key..
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key..

an nothing ...

the only way to get it working is if I start it with sudo in a terminal, 

I get:

NeoIX:~ Wolf$ sudo startx
font_cache: Scanning user font directories to generate X11 font caches
font_cache: Updating FC cache
font_cache: Done
xauth:  file /Users/Wolf/.serverauth.3832 does not exist

/opt/X11/bin/xinit: XFree86_VT property unexpectedly has 0 items instead of 1

and kde starts working properly. not sure, what's wrong. Something wrong with 
the rights of certain files?

best
christof
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