From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:12:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Fx_open_connection): Improve help when X connection
X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~13521
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bf770132a94fb1faa69f3b4e84a2570a6289b1d8;p=emacs.git

(Fx_open_connection): Improve help when X connection
fails, xhost is insecure and xauth is better.
---

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.  */)
       if (!NILP (must_succeed))
 	fatal ("Cannot connect to X server %s.\n\
 Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.\n\
-Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit\n\
-connections from your machine.\n",
+Also use the `xauth' program to verify that you have the proper
+authoritization information needed to connect the X server.\n\
+An insecure way to solve the problem may be to use `xhost'.\n",
 	       SDATA (display));
       else
 	error ("Cannot connect to X server %s", SDATA (display));