From: obz@sisd.kodak.com (Orest Zborowski COMP) Subject: Re: X -> can't access display 0: Date: 29 May 1992 15:23:19 GMT
jjlawren@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Jay Lawrence) writes:
>
>I have gotten X up and running on my system with little trouble!
>Later I will post my Xconfig info for my system (I am not near
>my machine).
>
>Anyway, xinitrc works for the most part. I get xclock and xterm
>find, twm starts up. But then if I want to run any more xprograms
>I get an error to the effect of can't access display 0:. What
>have I done wrong? Well, I have set the /usr/X386/bin/* to root/root.
>My environment has DISPLAY="0:". I can't think of anything else.
>Hmmm.
perhaps you need to export this variable? i use:
DISPLAY=":0"
export DISPLAY
otherwise this won't get exported to another process' environment
>
>Next question, how _exactly_ do I join the xwindows mailing list???
>(Perhaps listing the command to get the different topics from the
> mailing list - ie/ send a command such as 'topics' to linux-activists-
> requests ... or list them in the help file?)
send mail to linux-activists-request@joker.cs.hut.fi with the message
X-MN-Admin: join x11
>
>Thanks for the great system that has been put together guys! I hope
>that I can be of some help in the future!!!
>
>Jay Lawrence
>UWaterloo
zorst
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