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Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (Attn: QT3 maintainer) (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong? (Attn: QT3 maintainer) (was: copying and pasting in the terminal window?)
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, 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 $DISPLAY is set wrong. /etc/prodile.d/qt3.3.sh sets it
> > unconditionally to 127.0.0.1:0, which also breaks 'ssh -X'. Anyone know
> > *why* it's doing this?
>
> 'Cause it's broken?
>
> > Can it be fixed? (I assume this comes from a qt package ;-) but I don't
> > know who maintains those.)
>
> It's not in the official distribution: <http://cygwin.com/packages/qt/>.
> You'd probably better ask whoever you got it from (but not on this list).
Actually, I'm wrong. QT3 *is* part of the Cygwin distribution, but none
of the packages contain a file named qt3.3.sh... I only see qt3-devel.sh
and qt3-doc.sh... The maintainer of QT3 (Yaakov Selkowitz) reads this
list, AFAIK, but probably not this thread, so I'm changing the subject to
flag his attention.
> > '[ -z "$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...
> Igor
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