Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-07-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-25 14:05:45, schrieb Eric d'Alibut: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gqview (gqview:26337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ evince (evince:28047): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY 0:0. ??? -- This should be :0.0 Try to

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
This is a stable install that has been running, er, with great stability, for well over a year; it was brought up to date with etch no problemo earlier in the year. A recent routine 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' has left me with some new, and rather disagreeable, behaviour. This box boots

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:05:45PM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: This is a stable install that has been running, er, with great stability, for well over a year; it was brought up to date with etch no problemo earlier in the year. A recent routine 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' has left me

X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the output of the following two: echo $DISPLAY As noted: $ echo $DISPLAY 0:0. xlsclients $ xlsclients xlsclients: unable to open display 0:0. What scripts might be monkeying with xauth? -- No no no, my

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I then start an xterm and attempt to launch an X app, such as gqview, or evince, from the command prompt in that xterm, no app launches; this is what I get: --snip-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gqview (gqview:26337): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Re: X apps don't launch from Xterm

2008-06-25 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Cameron Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY 0:0. That DISPLAY variable is wrong. It should be :0.0 Bingo. You get the Eagle Eye Award! Sure enough, and Lord Only Knows why, I had put an 'export DISPLAY=0:0.' into my .bashrc.