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From: bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP 9000/835 running X11 and HP-UX 3.01
Message-ID: <5030005@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 89 22:04:42 GMT
References: <17119@cisunx.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> This works fine on the HP 360, but if we set our DISPLAY to unix:0 this
> sometimes causes our programs on the 835 to hang. They run fine if we
> rlogin from another machine or if we set the DISPLAY to `hostname`:0. The
> routine it hangs in is XWaitForWriteable.
> 
> Has anyone else seen such a problem? Is this a bug in HP's code? Could the
> addition of MIT's libraries be causing such a subtle problem? Any work
> arounds or ideas? Any comments from the folks at HP?

You might try "local:0" instead of unix:0, or as you said, use `hostname`:0.