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From: MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield)
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Subject: getting xdemo to work (on a Sun)
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 06:43:58 EDT
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The problem:
        xdemo doesn't work on a Sun - it gives the confusing
        message
                no such file or directory

Solution-1 (The neat way)
        The problem is that "xdemo" is looking for a unix
        domain socket "/dev/X0", and the standard SUN
        configuration creates "/tmp/X0".  We added a
        symbolic link from "/dev/X{0,1}" to "/tmp/X{0,1}",
        which fixed things up nicely.

Soultion-2
        Specify a TCP domain display name, either
        explicitly, like
                xdemo balls myhost:0
        or implicitly by setting the DISPLAY environment
        variable
                setenv DISPLAY myhost:0

Thanks
        To all those people who sent ME these answers when I
        asked a while back - many I couldn't thank directly,
        as my mail bounced.

Niall