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Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:52:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > Oh, and...
> > > "rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0"
> >
> > I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set
> > wrong.
>
> Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it
> unconditionally to 127.0.0.1:0, which also breaks 'ssh -X'. Anyone know
> *why* it's doing this?
'Cause it's broken?
> Can it be fixed? (I assume this comes from a qt package ;-) but I don't
> know who maintains those.)
It's not in the official distribution: <http://cygwin.com/packages/qt/>.
You'd probably better ask whoever you got it from (but not on this list).
> '[ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0' seems to work better.
Nope, it's worse. Perhaps the user left DISPLAY unset for a reason... I
don't want simply installing some package to muck up my $DISPLAY...
Igor
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