From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 8:34:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0042637B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [209.49.190.34] (fireout.mbakercorp.com [209.49.190.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD9743E88 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from JWRIGHT@mbakercorp.com) Received: from no.name.available by [209.49.190.34] via smtpd (for mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) with SMTP; 16 Aug 2002 15:32:25 UT Received: from mbakercorp.com (admin_4.mbakercorp.com) by mailsweeper.mbakercorp.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.10) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:35:38 -0400 Received: from gatedom-MTA by mbakercorp.com with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:33:43 -0400 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.1 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:33:27 -0400 From: "Joseph Wright" To: Subject: Unable to open display:0.0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to get an X app like xclock to start X whenever it is launched, but right now if I launch xclock from a terminal it says Unable to open display:0.0 I have tried DISPLAY=:0.0 also but It gives the same error. I even tried a xhost + but that gave an error "Unable to open display "127.0.0.1:0" Even though all this is going on I can still start X with startx with no problem. thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message