Re: FVWM: HOSTDISPLAY variable

From: steve farrell <spfarrel_at_midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 17:43:59 -0500

speaking of fvwm on solaris, has anyone gotten 2.0.42 to work properly with
sun's X server? we've got a box here with solaris 2.5, CDE, and i built 2.0.42
for it/no errors with sparc compiler 4.0. i put it in no-window-manager mode
(this is a CDE thing), and run fvwm2 and it hangs -- mouse still works but i
can't type a thing and no window manager starts. i have to telnet in and kill
fvwm to do anything again. fvwm 1.24 i also compiled but it runs no problem.
also, if i run fvwm2 from my linux box i'm set (nfs mount so definitely same
config file...) -- any ideas?

>
>On Thu, 30 May 1996, Albrecht Kadlec wrote:
>
>>
>> well, HOSTDISPLAY is apparently set to `hostname`,
>> which doesn't include the domain in our domain.
>> (and I can't change that)
>>
>> Any way to tell fvwm the missing domain once and forever?
>
>phantom% hostname
>phantom
>
>phantom% hostname -f
>phantom.rh.uchicago.edu
>
>phantom% export HOSTDISPLAY=`hostname -f` # note backticks
>phantom% echo $HOSTDISPLAY
>phantom.rh.uchicago.edu
>
>
>does this work for you? it works under linux, but not with
>/usr/ucb/hostname on Solaris. there may be another cmd that does this
>though.
>
>if not, and it's one machine, just use
>
>phantom% export HOSTDISPLAY='your.domain.here' # quotes, not backticks
>
>hope this helps,
>greg
>
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