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Re: xhost/display oddities
- From: Chris Green <chris at areti dot co dot uk>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 12:03:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: xhost/display oddities
- References: <20040313115628.GA13781@areti.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: chris dot green at isbd dot co dot uk
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:56:28AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> However if I try and run xhost it says 'unable to open display ""' and
> similarly xlsfonts says the same thing.
>
> How does rxvt know to try and open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 whereas xhost
> and xlsfonts (and others presumably) just have nothing for the
> display?
>
> It's fixable by setting DISPLAY in the environment but it's a bit
> confusing.
>
Even sillier, if I set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 then xhost and xlsfonts
work but rxvt fails and says "can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0".
There's something distinctly odd about all this!
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)