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From: sane!genmri!doug@crdgw1.ge.com (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Setting the correct DISPLAY when starting up OpenWindows
Message-ID: <656uu7u@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 18:31:00 GMT
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    The problem:  I can't see how to tell the server that the display I want
                  is `hostname`:0.0 instead of :0.0

A quick glance through the openwin script shows that it doesn't like any
display specification that doesn't begin with a colon.  If Emacs is trying
to open `hostname`:0.0 when your DISPLAY environment variable is :0.0,
Emacs is broken.  (I use Emacs in an xterm, so I can't tell exactly what's
wrong.)  Are you sure Emacs is linked with the R4 libraries, so that it can
pick up the authorization data correctly?

Probably the easiest way to get Emacs working, if you're not overly
concerned about security, is to do an 'xhost +`hostname`' before you start
emacs.  (You could then do an 'xhost -`hostname`' after it had started.)
Alternatively, you could have the OW 2.0 server start up with authorization
turned off (via the -noauth option to openwin).

-- 

Doug Becker
doug@nmri.ge.com
crdgw1!sane!doug