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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:25:12 +0100
From: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= <Olaf DOT Foellinger AT sesa DOT de>
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Subject: Re: SFU installed -> rxvt problems
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:19:55PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Olaf wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:07:04PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >> Hallo,
> >> 
> >> I don't know if SFU is the reason, but after installing it and rebooting
> >> the computer I cannot open a rxvt terminal without running X.  It
> >> complains:
> >> $ /usr/bin/rxvt
> >> rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0
> 
> > It seems there is a global defined variable DISPLAY now which points to
> > 127.0.0.1:0.0. And rxvt reads it and thinks that there is a X-Server
> > running.
> 
> Yes, I've defined this always, since I installed the X server for the
> first time, but rxvt always works also without a running X server.
> 
> $ cat .bashrc | grep DISPLAY
> export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

That's right, rxvt works wthout X, but if DISPLAY is dset, then it
thinks there is an X-server(at least here).

$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0;rxvt
rxvt: can't open display 127.0.0.1:0.0

 
Gruss Olaf Föllinger

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