Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:17:59 -0800 From: Rob <rob@roblytle.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname Message-ID: <20060222101759.66d3e0e3.rob@roblytle.org>
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I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error message: _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Error: Can't open display: xenon:0.0 also when starting or stopping Xorg I either get: bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command I have my XDISPLAY env variable set using (in Bash): DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY xenon is the name of the machine I think part of the problem is the setting of the hostname. This laptop runs off of DHCP and I am not really sure about what I should do for setting the hostname. The manual says to set HOSTNAME="" in rc.conf if using DHCP, but then I get the amnesiac message upon boot. Sendmail doesn't like that either and hangs during the boot process. So I just set it arbitrarily to "xenon" I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused about all of this. Thank you for any help. Sincerely, Rob Lytle -- ----------------------- http://www.roblytle.org Rob Lytle Home Page
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