'xauth list' doesn't work in xfce4 (for me)

[Dale Blount]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:07, Paul M. Bucalo wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:07:52 -0400
> Dale Blount <xfce4-list at dale.us> graced me with:
> 
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > I'm having a weird problem.  'xauth list' works (shows cookies) as a
> > normal user in other window managers (flux/gnome 2.2 tried), however
> > under xfce4 (rc2-rc4's tried), xauth list returns nothing.
> > 
> > 'xauth list' also works when running xfce4 as root.
> > 
> > I'm looking for a way of debugging this to find the problem, not
> > blaming xfce in any way.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help,
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> 
> I'm using RC3 under Mandrake 9.1 and it works fine for me under an
> xterm logged in as user. 
> 
> Could you have messed up your permissions, somehow? Whenever I can do
> something *only* as root, not user, permissions comes to mind.
> 
> Possible?
> 

Very possible and probable.  Yet it works in fluxbox and gnome as a
user, so it must be something that xfce4 does differently than the rest
(which is why I'm asking on this list).  I'm using startxfce4 to start
xfce, is there another way to do this or a way to get more debug logs?

Thanks,

Dale