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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
