on Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:37:23AM -0600, Chris Burns insinuated: > I dotn' think my $DISPLAY variable is set correctly. I'm trying to > run an X program on a remote computer through ssh. It says: > > Cannot create window - please check your DISPLAY environment > variable. along these lines, i have a (non-debian) question -- i was just sitting in the Sun lab, and a user came up and asked me for help -- he couldn't open xemacs, because he was getting messages that didn't have X permissions (or something; i didn't copy them down). his $DISPLAY variable was set to :0.0, and when i suggested he try logging in on another client, it worked fine ... was this just a fluke? huh. thanks, </nori> -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^
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