Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:14:09AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 4 23:37, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:11:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >> >However, I won't be able to investigate further for at least a >> >week...and will have only intermittent internet ac

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 23:37, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:11:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >However, I won't be able to investigate further for at least a > >week...and will have only intermittent internet access until then. > > So that may be as many as *two* Thursdays then.

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread d.henman
Update: checkX does work of course. My problem was: 1. I was setting the DISPLAY environment variable which X11 based clients use and expected checkX to use it as well. 2. I specified the X11 server to try, incorrectly as $ checkX 127.0.0.1:0, without the -d opt

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 11:11:13PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >However, I won't be able to investigate further for at least a >week...and will have only intermittent internet access until then. So that may be as many as *two* Thursdays then. Presumably you're going to be looking for just the r

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/4/2013 10:24 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/4/2013 9:50 PM, wynf... wrote: It is clearly written in my message, in fact in imported it from the checkX documentation. What part of the problem I'm describing is not clear to you? "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xse

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/4/2013 9:50 PM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Re: checkX $ checkX --version run2 0.4.2 checkX doesn't work as I understand the description below: "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified DISPLAY and will accept

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread wynfield
Larry Hall wrote: > > Re: checkX > > > >$ checkX --version > > run2 0.4.2 > > > > checkX doesn't work as I understand the description below: > > > > "DESCRIPTION > > Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified > > DISPLAY > > and will accept clients.

Re: checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/3/2013 4:54 AM, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: Re: checkX $ checkX --version run2 0.4.2 checkX doesn't work as I understand the description below: "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified DISPLAY and will accept clients. Returns 0 if

checkX problem or misunderstanding

2013-08-03 Thread wynfield
Re: checkX $ checkX --version run2 0.4.2 checkX doesn't work as I understand the description below: "DESCRIPTION Determines if X is installed, Xserver is running on specified DISPLAY and will accept clients. Returns 0 if yes, nonzero otherwise" Environment / Procedure to