That should be because the shells in the screen sessions are authorized for the original X session, but not the new one. Usually using "xauth merge ~/.Xauthority" or whatever file contains your x authority information should work. Unfortunately you'll have to do that in each shell inside screen though.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:57 AM, David Collins <davidcollins...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I use 5 different screen sessions for various different purposes on my > work computer (linux open suse). When the X server is restarted and I > re-attach the screen sessions I can no longer open programs that use > X. The error I get is "cannot open display :0.0" The xterm without the > screen session running can open an X app just fine. > > Does anyone have any ways that I can stop this happening, usually it > isn't a problem but on the occsation it does happen I have to restart > the screen session. > > Thanks > David > > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users > -- Tom Scogland "When in doubt, use brute force" -- Ken Thompson
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