On 2/23/07, Kevin Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not particularly familiar with how X servers work, but I thought that usually to connect to a local X server you set your DISPLAY to :0.0 which makes it connect to localhost. Perhaps installing XFree86 does something to set DISPLAY to your particular hostname? This seems odd, but I don't know any reason for your hostname to affect this otherwise. What do you get if you do an `echo $DISPLAY`?
Thanks Kevin for your suggestion. When I am in a normal terminal shell on OS X, and if I echo $DISPLAY as you suggest, I get nothing back in the shell. I don't have $DISPLAY defined in my bash profile (should I have? I didn't seem to have a problem with startx prior to my Computer Name and thus hostname change)? Before the change, I would type "startx" on the command line and in doing so XDarwin would launch. I would then select the Full Screen or Rootless option and then my window manager (wmaker) would go to work and I'd see a few icons and from there I could go to town. After changing the Computer Name and therefore, indirectly, the hostname, and when I would type 'startx' on the command line in a new shell, XDarwin will launch but then when I select either Full Screen or Rootless, I see the following repeated in the shell that I started X from: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
I'm not an expert with regard to X so I wonder what to make of this. Also (even before I made the changes to the Computer Name), once I had X up and running, I could only run apps like OpenOffice from an xterm terminal shell but never from an OS X terminal shell. I suppose it must have something to do with how Xterm is configured ... are there some decent HowTos to read with regard to how to best set up one's bash profile on OS X in order to be able to run X apps from the normal terminal shell instead of requiring to run under Xterm, all in the context of MacPorts? Thanks for your suggestions! TM On Feb 23, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Tabitha McNerney wrote:
Hello, Today I needed to change the hostname of a Mac (running 10.4.8) which has previously been installed with numerous MacPorts including XDarwin via XFree86. After changing the hostname and then running: $ startx I could not connect to the X server, so I had to change the hostname back to the name that was used when the MacPorts were built and installed. I'm not ultra familiar with X and I'm wondering if anyone can suggest how to change the hostname without having to uninstall and then reinstall? In general, is it a risk to many other MacPorts to later change the hostname? Thanks for any suggestions, -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tildesoft.com
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