Comment 6 for bug 173757

Hi.

I answered your jabber message briefly, but for completeness let me answer here as well.

gksu --debug id

gives me

STARTUP_ID: gksu/id/6533-0-chiyo_TIME1808071

And

gksu --debug echo blarg blarg blarg

gives me

STARTUP_ID: gksu/echo 'blarg' 'blarg' 'blarg'/6547-0-chiyo_TIME1874655

To get a longer startup id, it's just a question of adding more "blarg" arguments to echo, so this should
be sufficient to reproduce the problem (albeit in a constructed form).

Hm, better yet, here is reproduction recipe that shows the actual problem of xauth breaking:

yes :0 | head -30 | xargs gksu --debug xauth list

works, but

yes :0 | head -300 | xargs gksu --debug xauth list

does not.