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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: X Windows Problem Date: 23 Jun 1996 15:49:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4qjp2o$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31C8B5F3.167EB0E7@eramp.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Cc: syntax@eramp.net Syntax <syntax@eramp.net> wrote: > I later went into /etc/sysconfig and editted my computer's name down to > "perfect". When this didn't solve my problem I changed it to > "localhost". Better keep it at "perfect.eramp.net". > Here is my problem: I can use the window manager /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm just > fine. Any of the others fvwm,xwm,xsd, etc. gave me the error that they > could not open my display. xdm ain't a window manager, it's a server that allows you to start your window _system_. The window managers are only useful once you started the window system (by startx or xdm). > I therefor typed: setenv DISPLAY :0.0 and got the error: > TRANS(SocketINETConnect)()can't connect:errno=61 > Can't open display :0.0 This means that X11 is simply not (yet) running. > Please, if you get the chance send your answers to syntax@eramp.net > as well as posting them so after this is fixxed I can thank you all > publicly. Cc'ed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)