Stumped: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

[Collins Richey]

On 10/9/05, Hermann J. Beckers <hj.beckers at onlinehome.de> wrote:
>
>
> > 1. xhost +localhost
> > 2. export DISPLAY=localhost:0,0
>
> Don't know if its a typo, but I see a comma between 0 and 0 in the
> DISPLAY-definition (should be a period).
>
>
> Yours
> hjb
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Sigh, yes a typo, and that was part of the answer. Now the attempt to
run 'synaptic &' goes far enough that I get the [1] pidnbr display and
a new bash # prompt, but synaptic still dies with the old familiar
complaint.


--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan