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applied a patch from Michael Matz that calls fork() before starting gimp. 

2004-04-08  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* tools/gimp-remote.c (start_new_gimp): applied a patch from
	Michael Matz that calls fork() before starting gimp. This is to
	avoid X server authentification problems (bug #139158).
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2004-04-08 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org>
* tools/gimp-remote.c (start_new_gimp): applied a patch from
Michael Matz that calls fork() before starting gimp. This is to
avoid X server authentification problems (bug #139158).
2004-04-07 Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gimp.org>
* configure.in (ALL_LINGUAS): revert addition of "is" until all

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@ -253,14 +253,30 @@ start_new_gimp (GdkScreen *screen,
break;
}
execv (gimp, argv);
execvp (GIMP_BINARY, argv);
/* We must ensure that gimp is started with a different PID.
Otherwise it could happen that (when it opens it's display) it sends
the same auth token again (because that one is uniquified with PID
and time()), which the server would deny. */
switch (fork ())
{
case -1:
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
/* if execv and execvp return, there was an arror */
g_printerr ("Couldn't start %s for the following reason: %s\n",
GIMP_BINARY, g_strerror (errno));
case 0: /* child */
execv (gimp, argv);
execvp (GIMP_BINARY, argv);
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
/* if execv and execvp return, there was an error */
g_printerr ("Couldn't start %s for the following reason: %s\n",
GIMP_BINARY, g_strerror (errno));
exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
default: /* parent */
break;
}
exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
static void