Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- Subject: Re: X11 in Leopard: xterm on start-up
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:48:20 -0600
On 10/28/07, Jamie Kennea <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
That's fascinating. I just had DISPLAY=":0.0" before. Would that
program have worked with that?
On the more helpful side, the project page for ds9 [courtesy of
google] ( http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/ ) appears to have contact
info for who to contact if it's not working for you.
~ Nathan
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