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Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?


Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote:

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Oh, and...
"rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0"
I think you have either installed the wrong one or have DISPLAY set
wrong.
Of course $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it
unconditionally to 127.0.0.1:0, which also breaks 'ssh -X'. Anyone know
*why* it's doing this?

'Cause it's broken?


Can it be fixed? (I assume this comes from a qt package ;-) but I don't
know who maintains those.)

It's not in the official distribution: <http://cygwin.com/packages/qt/>. You'd probably better ask whoever you got it from (but not on this list).

It isn't? http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3/ http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-bin/ http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-devel/ http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-doc/

'[ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0' seems to work better.

Nope, it's worse. Perhaps the user left DISPLAY unset for a reason... I don't want simply installing some package to muck up my $DISPLAY...

"Better". The other alternative is to simply remove the line, which is probably "best". :-)


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