On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:05:45PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > This is a stable install that has been running, er, with great > stability, for well over a year; it was brought up to date with etch > no problemo earlier in the year. A recent routine 'apt-get update', > 'apt-get upgrade' has left me with some new, and rather disagreeable, > behaviour. > > This box boots to a command prompt, and then after logging in as a > regular user I launch X with a simple 'startx.' This gets me Gnome. If > I then start an xterm and attempt to launch an X app, such as gqview, > or evince, from the command prompt in that xterm, no app launches; > this is what I get: > > --snip-- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gqview > (gqview:26337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evince > (evince:28047): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY > 0:0. > > --snip-- > > As you can see, the display id is available in the environment. >
I figure you somehow override the DISPLAY settings or the xauth settings in your shell startup scripts. What is the output of the following two: echo $DISPLAY xlsclients > Also, setting 'xhost +' in a .xinitrc file does not affect this behaviour. This should not be required. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
