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james@debbay:~$ xauth extract tmp $DISPLAY
james@debbay:~$ sudo -u wine -i
wine@debbay:~$ export XAUTHORITY=.Xauthority
wine@debbay:~$ xauth merge ~james/tmp
xauth: creating new authority file .Xauthority
wine@debbay:~$
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nylen commented Nov 11, 2010

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s/b export XAUTHORITY=~wine/.Xauthority

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nylen commented Nov 11, 2010

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or unset XAUTHORITY

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enzo878 commented May 12, 2026

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my vnc of Kali nethunter it's off / usr/bin/xauth: file /home/kali/.Xauthority does not exist

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