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[William Davis]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> 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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The system should set DISPLAY=/tmp/launch_bla_bla_bla . All you need  
to do is
remove any DISPLAY=0.0 lines in your ~/.profile and ~/.xinitrc.  You  
might even try renaming
~/.xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc.old
Do the above, quit X if it is running, then start some X app like  
gedit.  X should start and then your app.
If you check the env you should see that the system has set DISPLAY  
for you.

William Davis
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