Ted Gervais wrote:
>
> Hi Michael..
>
> Thanks for your note. And my X display is whatever you get when you do a full
> 'desktop' installation of RedHat.
Okay. So you are in a graphical environment, not sitting at a command
line in a virtual terminal?
When you deliver the emacs command, are you in an Xterm? Or something
else? I assume that if you type "echo $DISPLAY" you get a blank line in
response? The odd thing is, if you have an xterm up, then you have a
working display, and the shell that runs inside the xterm should have
inherited the DISPLAY setting from its parent...
You could certainly hand-set a display variable, for example "export
DISPLAY=:0.0" will tell all X clients started within that shell session
to use the first screen on the first display of the local machine, which
works in many cases. But that won't address the problem that got you
here in the first place, you'll have to type that export command from
every shell where you want to start an X client, which will get
cumbersome in a hurry.
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~~~Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation~~~~
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since such is our habit in
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