On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM, John Mort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've recently started using screen out of habit when SSH'ing into my
> machine from work.  Today I tried editing a file with emacs and got
> the following error.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs x
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0.0.
> Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
> Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
> connections from your machine.
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printenv | grep DISPLAY
> DISPLAY=:0.0
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xhost
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> xhost:  unable to open display ":0.0"
>
>
>
> Not really sure where to go from here, google is telling me how to
> solve several problems that aren't this one. Any suggestions?
>

Try emacs -nw x

-nw stands for no window using that it then should open in the console, not
try to open a graphical window.

Todd


>
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