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! -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
