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Subject: Re: Why is $DISPLAY wrong?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:04:00 -0500
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mwoehlke wrote:
> 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).
> 
> It isn't?
> http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3/
> http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-bin/
> http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-devel/
> http://cygwin.com/packages/qt3-doc/

Ah, but on further investigation, I see that it doesn't come from those, 
it came from qt3-x11, which I don't remember installing. So it isn't a 
Cygwin package that's to blame, and IIRC none of this is supported any 
more anyway. :-)

-- 
Matthew
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