Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@its.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Can't use local display with remote hosts in X11R3 Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 89 07:28:55 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: The Octagon Room Lines: 28 Sorry to be bothering everyone with this, but my beginning knowledge of X has not been able to get me through this problem. We've just installed Emacs 18.53 on our Sun 3, SunOS 4.0.1 system and are having a problem with Emacs' handling of displays. The problem in general seems to be that Emacs just won't open up a TCP/IP display. A more specific example: I login to consult1.its.rpi.edu and fire up my X11R3 server with vanilla uwm. I turn around and login to risk.its.rpi.edu, an identical (for all practical purposes) machine. From risk, I start "emacs -display consult1.its.rpi.edu:0" and it complains about not being able to connect to the X server; in fact, if I try using that display from consult1, it still balks, although -display unix:0 works as it should. The problem does not seem to be with our network or with X, as other X tools (xterm, xclock, xcalc, et al) work as expected. If anyone has any advice into this matter, I would greatly appreciate it. We seem to have a pretty standard configuration and why this doesn't work is a complete mystery to me. (By the way, looking at the code for x11term.c it appears as though checking of the DISPLAY environment variable was taken out; is this now directly supported in X11, making such a check unnecessary?) Dave -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu