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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:1780 comp.os.386bsd.questions:7733 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!latcs2.lat.oz.au!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: funny behaviour of X programs Message-ID: <CJ5pop.LME@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs2.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 12:36:25 GMT Sender: news@latcs1.lat.oz.au (news) Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 27 Hi, I am running FreeBSD-1.0R and XFree-2.0 with fvwm. I logged on 2nd virtual console (SYSCON) ie /dev/ttyv1, and starts X running fvwm. I have a few : xterm -T "Su root" -e su -l root running on different virtual display within /dev/ttyv1 installing some softwares and kermitting out. After some hours of works, when try to xterm -T "Su root" -e su -l root, I got the message : Error: Can't open display: :1.0. All of my xterms (except the ones I started off from .xinitrc) are started off from fvwm popup, and I have never need to worry about $DISPLAY. Also, if I start off some other X programs from those xterms (su -l root ones), I have to set my $DISPLAY to :1.0, but not the full form of lespoir:1.0, where lespoir is my hostname. And then I switch back to my xterms started off from .xinitrc, and attempted to run some X programs from them, and this time I also got the errors : Can't open display: :1.0, and I have to explicitly set $DISPLAY to lespoir:1.0, before any X programs will run. I wonder if anyone has this problem before? I know this might not be a big problem to many people, but I am just worry about if there might be dangerous bugs lying somewhere. Is there a possible explanation for this happenning ? Thanks in advance! - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong) -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au