Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!carbon!shaff From: shaff@elements.rpal.com (Mike Shaff) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: MacX and A/UX 2.0 Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 90 18:40:31 GMT Sender: root@elements.rpal.com (Operator) Reply-To: shaff@rpal.com Distribution: comp Organization: Rockwell International Palo Alto Lab Lines: 34 ciao, Someone pointed out to me via email (thank-you for not flaming via c.u.aux!) that I should post a summary giving a solution to the stand-alone A/UX 2.0 w/ MacX when applications were launched locally. The error I was receiving was: "Can not open display Dream:0.0" (where Dream is my machine) Sometime later I stumbled onto a temporary solution. Set the environment variable DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 with the instruction: setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0 I was at a loss as to what made the 'localhost' name special, but I awaited some more knowledgeable person to post a long-term solution, before I tracted down that question. I received a batch of mail that carried a solution. The /etc/hosts file must contain a valid entry for your machine name, further the address must be the loop-back address. There seems to be two ways of doing this: 1. Add your machine name to the end of the line which is the loop-back entry (find the line with the words loop and localhost). 2. Add a new entry with the proper information. The address should be the same as the one found on the loop-back line. Thanks again to all those who helped me and additionally thanks to the person who pointed out that the net could benefit from my newly garnered information. -- mas It's either lunacy or lightnin'