[SOLVED] Re: FVWM: Strange problem with localhost

"Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ok, so, I deleted the line

    setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0

from my ~/.login file and then exited X, logged out (console) and
then logged back in (console again) and checked.  At that point,
the environment variable DISPLAY wasn't set at all.  I then started
up X (via xinit) as I am accustomed to doing, which in turn started
up fvwm, and I then got an xterm window and checked again.  Now I
have the following:

   DISPLAY=:0

Now all of the following are working happily:

   firefox
   opera
   chrome
   xpdf
   evince
   gimp
   vlc

So everybody is happy, it seems, and I am back in the saddle again.

My thanks to Stephen Dennison <[email protected]> for taking me right
to the heart of the matter.

(It serves me right.  This is the kind of thing that happens when/if one
neglects to upgrade things for years and years.  What can I say? I was
busy. :-)


Regards,
rfg
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.