On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:19:55PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Olaf wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> Hallo, > >> > >> I don't know if SFU is the reason, but after installing it and rebooting > >> the computer I cannot open a rxvt terminal without running X. It > >> complains: > >> $ /usr/bin/rxvt > >> rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 > > > It seems there is a global defined variable DISPLAY now which points to > > 127.0.0.1:0.0. And rxvt reads it and thinks that there is a X-Server > > running. > > Yes, I've defined this always, since I installed the X server for the > first time, but rxvt always works also without a running X server. > > $ cat .bashrc | grep DISPLAY > export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
That's right, rxvt works wthout X, but if DISPLAY is dset, then it thinks there is an X-server(at least here). $ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0;rxvt rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG Alt-Moabit 91a D-10559 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 390722 -291 Fax: +49 30 390722 -222 Mobil: +49 173 6227080 http://www.sesa.de mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/