Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-07-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-25 14:05:45, schrieb Eric d'Alibut: > [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. ??? -- This should be ":0.0"

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY >>0:0. > That DISPLAY variable is wrong. It should be :0.0 Bingo. You get the Eagle Eye Award! Sure enough, and Lord Only Knows why, I had put an 'export DISPLAY=0:0.' into my .bash

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
"Eric d'Alibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >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 disp

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the output of the following two: > echo $DISPLAY As noted: $ echo $DISPLAY 0:0. > xlsclients $ xlsclients xlsclients: unable to open display "0:0." What scripts might be monkeying with xauth? -- No no no,

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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 m

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
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