Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 09:27:07 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: "Chris F." <theta@gte.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XWindows: Can't open display: Message-ID: <19970727092707.14850@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199707261927.OAA24580@smtp.gte.net>; from Chris F. on Sat, Jul 26, 1997 at 02:27:29PM -0500 References: <199707261927.OAA24580@smtp.gte.net>
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Chris F.: |I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2. When running Xwindows applications I get the |following error: | |(When I don't set the display variable) | |Error: Can't open display: | |(When I set it to :0) | |Error: Can't open display: :0 | |I don't know what I should set my display variable to. I have tried setting |it to :0, unix:0, unix:0.0, as they were suggested in archived mailing list |messages. None of them caused any different results. Please copy all |suggestions to me at theta@gte.net. Where are you running the X apps from? Cmd line in Xterms? Pull-down menu in window manager? Run "xhost" and note the output. Then run "xhost +" (for testing only) and see if starting an X app that failed before with that error will come up now. Also, if running from inside an xterm, verify correct syntax for setting an env var for your shell: "setenv DISPLAY :0.0" for tcsh/csh, or "DISPLAY=:0.0 export DISPLAY" for sh/ksh/bash Randall Hopper
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