20.10.2024 10:22, Marc Chamberlin via openSUSE Users wrote:

Hello SuSE gurus - I recently upgraded a few of my OpenSuSE 15.4 x64
systems to OpenSuSE 15.6 x64 (yes with an intermediate upgrade to 15.5)
and a number of my custom scripts and software broke. FWIW I am using
KDE with the X11/plasma desktop. I tracked the problem down to a change
in location of the xauth_xxxx file that gets created. In 15.4 this file
was located at /run/user/1000/xauth_xxxxx as shown below -

  > > env | grep XAUTH
  > XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=quasar
  > XAUTHORITY=/run/user/1000/xauth_VMlqlf

In 15.6 this file got moved to /tmp as shown below -

  > > env | grep XAUTH
  > XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=wa7pxw
  > XAUTHORITY=/tmp/xauth_NrHHAf

Why?

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1212932

Is it possible to change 15.6 back to use the previous
/run/user/1000 location, and if so how? Or am I going to have to change
all my scripts and rebuild software that depended on the old location?

Inside X11 session your programs are supposed to use $XAUTHORITY. Outside of X11 session this should not be used at all.

If you explain why you need to know this location, someone may be able to suggest an alternative way of doing it.