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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