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Vincent Lefevre vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org
Mon Nov 26 03:45:48 PST 2007


On 2007-11-23 17:32:01 -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> 	In any case, I've been playing with X11 on Leopard lately but haven't  
> been able to experience this functionality, if I unset the DISPLAY  
> variable I simply can't open X11 programs from Terminal.app

AFAIK, unsetting DISPLAY is an error if you want to use X clients,
even Apple ones.

> (even Apple provided ones under /usr/X11/bin); no launchd magic
> happens and all I get are "can't find display" errors (even though I
> do have a / tmp/launch-QLJ9Yh/\:0 sockect).

because DISPLAY is unset. DISPLAY needs to contain the name of the
socket in some form.

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