Re: vi trying to connect to X
On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:58, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 08:50 pm, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> > On Monday, 6 February 2006 04:19, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:08:15 -0600
> > >
> > > Anthony Simonelli <asimonelli7@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm running KDE and use Konsole but everytime I invoke vi from
> > > > Konsole, I get the following:
> > > >
> > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > >
> > > have you restarted X recently? If not, try it... i had similar issues
> > > using icewm (a window manager similar to KDE) after some upgrades.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >
> > > Shawn
> >
> > Hiya
> >
> > Why not try "unset DISPLAY" at the shell command prompt? vi will not
> > assume that it is in an X environment then.
> >
> > cheers
> > Duncan
> >
> >
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> I logged out, used Ctrl + Alt + Backspace to reset X and logged back in.
> It appears to have fixed the problem! Thank you for your help. I wonder
> why that fixed it? Also, 'unset' isn't a command, do I use it as an option
> of vi?
>
> i.e. vi unset DISPLAY?
>
> Sorry if that is a stupid question...
"unset" is a shell built-in command which allows you to remove an environment
variable. You use it at the shell prompt: eg. unset DISPLAY
cheers
Duncan
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