Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-06 Thread Ari Kahn
From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:34:40 + To: Ari Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: perl.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:54:31PM -0500, Ari Kahn wrote: I have an Xwindows program (consed

Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Rocteur
On Saturday, Dec 6, 2003, at 08:39 Europe/Brussels, Ari Kahn wrote: From: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:34:40 + To: Ari Kahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: perl.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:54:31PM

Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-06 Thread David Cantrell
Ari Kahn wrote: David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the DISPLAY environment variable to something appropriate. How do I figure out what is an appropriate setting for DISPLAY? DISPLAY=:0 is almost always the right incantation. You do, of course, need to be running a local X server. --

Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-05 Thread Ari Kahn
I have an Xwindows program (consed) that I would like to execute from perl. Of course OSX is not Xwindows so executing it outside of an xwindows terminal will not work because I get Error: Can't open display: I need to find a way to somehow tell consed to run in an Xwindows environment if the

Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:54:31PM -0500, Ari Kahn wrote: I have an Xwindows program (consed) that I would like to execute from perl. Of course OSX is not Xwindows so executing it outside of an xwindows terminal will not work because I get Error: Can't open display: I need to find a way to

Re: Executing an Xwindows app from perl on OSX

2003-12-05 Thread drieux
On Dec 4, 2003, at 5:54 PM, Ari Kahn wrote: I have an Xwindows program (consed) that I would like to execute from perl. Of course OSX is not Xwindows so executing it outside of an xwindows terminal will not work because I get Error: Can't open display: I need to find a way to somehow tell