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Re: xhost/display oddities
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:03:58PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:56:28AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >
> > However if I try and run xhost it says 'unable to open display ""' and
> > similarly xlsfonts says the same thing.
> >
> > How does rxvt know to try and open display 127.0.0.1:0.0 whereas xhost
> > and xlsfonts (and others presumably) just have nothing for the
> > display?
> >
> > It's fixable by setting DISPLAY in the environment but it's a bit
> > confusing.
> >
> Even sillier, if I set DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 then xhost and xlsfonts
> work but rxvt fails and says "can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0".
>
> There's something distinctly odd about all this!
>
The plot thickens, sorry I'm rambling on.
xlsfonts and xhost will only run in the win2k console if I have an
xdmcp session running to (from?) a remote computer! If I have an
X0.hosts file with 127.0.0.1 in it and the DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 then
both xhosts and xlsfonts both say "unable to open display
127.0.0.1:0.0". But if I start an xdmcp session then they run
successfully. They're not using the X session to display but they
insist on it being present.
Hmmmm.
--
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)