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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/

>> '[ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0' seems to work better.
> 
> Nope, it's worse.  Perhaps the user left DISPLAY unset for a reason...  I
> don't want simply installing some package to muck up my $DISPLAY...

"Better". The other alternative is to simply remove the line, which is 
probably "best". :-)

-- 
Matthew
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