Re: FVWM: fvwm2 on solaris 7

From: Paul D. Smith <pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com>
Date: 03 Feb 2000 15:40:14 -0500

%% babu chakrapani <babu_chakrapani_at_yahoo.com> writes:

  bc> Still seeing the same problem..
  bc> version is 2.2.4.

  bc> Still says cannot open display. DISPLAY variable is ok
  bc> and is exported.

Why are you setting display to hostname:0.0 instead of just :0.0?

The former will always uses sockets to communicate between the clients
and the X server, while the latter will use shared memory which is
_much_ faster.

It sounds to me like you don't have permissions to access the server
using the hostname:0.0 method. I've seen this before (just the other
day someone was using the elm backgrounder and it kept removing these
permissions!)

If you must stay with hostname:0.0, try using:

  xhost +hostname

before you invoke the window manager.

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Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 14:41:01 GMT