Re: [Fink-beginners] Can no longer run X apps from Terminal.app

[Marc B. <mbo...@ma...>]

Alexander:

Your suggestion to remove 'localhost' and set DISPLAY to :0.0 did the  
trick.  All is well again.

The solution raises questions.  First, I am certain that, before  
changing window managers, setting DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 worked  
fine, even when using Apple's X11.app.  So what did changing window  
managers trigger?  And why does Apple's X11 trip over localhost:0.0  
when XDarwin.app does not?

At least I'm up and running again.

Thanks.

On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> On 9/29/05, Alexander K. Hansen <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On 9/29/05, Marc Boxerman <mbo...@ma...> wrote:
>>
>>> Alexander:
>>>
>>> Echo $DISPLAY returns localhost:0.0 from my shell running from
>>> Terminal.app.  From the xterm I run from Apple's X11 (via the
>>> Applications pull-down menu) it returns :0.0.  From what I  
>>> understand
>>> that is effectively the same thing.
>>>
>>> DISPLAY is set to localhost.0.0 from my .cshrc file.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> So much for brilliant ideas. ;-)
>
>>
>> Try setting DISPLAY in your .cshrc to just ":0.0" (get rid of
>> "localhost") and see if that helps.
>>
>>
>
> And as an addendum, I tried the following experiment:
>
> setting DISPLAY to "localhost:0" works for XDarwin.app.  On the other
> hand, for X11.app, using "localhost:0" does not, while just using ":0"
> does.
>
> --
> Alexander K. Hansen
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