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Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
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Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up


  • Subject: Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
  • From: Jamie Kennea <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:36:23 -0400


On Oct 28, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Nathan wrote:

That's awesome!  I can take the DISPLAY=... trickery out of my
.profile and I no longer have to train coworkers about the DISPLAY
variable!  I just checked, and without my DISPLAY junk in my .profile,
it's set to /tmp/launch-zk0BPF/:0


Its great until you have a program that assumes that the string that comes before the :0 is a valid hostname and tries to resolve it, e.g.:

~ > ds9
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for /tmp/launch-MYoUjW/: 6000: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "/tmp/ launch-MYoUjW/:0"
Error in startup script: invalid command name "option"
while executing
"option add {*Entry*BorderWidth} 1"
(file "./zvfsmntpt/src/ds9.tcl" line 10)


Futzing with the DISPLAY variable can have unexpected results.

Jamie

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