Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:27:05PM -0500, Sean wrote: > <--snip--> > >>Many people never use a networked X... > <--snip--> > > I'm never to sure what to think about this the functionality is there, > has been for ages, but you never really hear much about it. And yet at work > (a microsoft

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Sean
<--snip--> >>Many people never use a networked X... <--snip--> I'm never to sure what to think about this the functionality is there, has been for ages, but you never really hear much about it. And yet at work (a microsoft house) we spend quite a bit of money, time, and effort connecting t

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:39:37AM +0100, Tibor D. wrote: > Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's > > a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart > > X. > > > > I had the same problem. > > > Ye

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-23 Thread Tibor D.
Robert L. Harris wrote: On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Yeah, me too, but why do you think that's a *nice* line? I don't get it why that "-noliste

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:46:27PM -0500, Trevor Wood wrote: > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my > display for X apps anymore. My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my > DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0. Now I have to set it to :0.0 > to run loc

Re: "Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Robert L. Harris
On your local machine you need to edit "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverc". There's a nice line that contains "-nolisten tcp" in it. Remove that and restart X. I had the same problem. Robert Thus spake Trevor Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot

"Can't open display" problems

2001-02-22 Thread Trevor Wood
I just upgraded from potato to woody and found that I cannot open my display for X apps anymore. My hostname is MEDESIGN, so I used to set my DISPLAY environment variable to MEDESIGN:0. Now I have to set it to :0.0 to run local X apps. However, this won't work when I try to run an X applicati