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From: vartan@apptek2.itstd.sri.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.emacs
Subject: Configuration problem running GNU Emacs under X...
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Date: 20 Feb 90 05:04:21 GMT
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Hi folks,

I'm trying to run GNU Emacs (18.??) on my Sun 3 (3.4) under X11R3.  I
can only get it to work if I "setenv DISPLAY unix:0.0".  However, if I
try to setenv DISPLAY to anything else, e.g. <machine-name>:0.0, I get
a timeout message from emacs: unable to connect to server, check
DISPLAY environment variable.

Has anyone seen this before?  Does it sound like a site specific
configuration problem, an emacs problem, or an X problem?

I've tried using the -d option when invoking emacs, but this doesn't
seem to work.  Has anyone had any success using this option?  I've
tried both the following forms:

	gnuemacs -d apptek2:0.0   ("apptek2" is my machine name)
	gnuemacs -dapptek2:0.0   

This is a pain, because not being able to set DISPLAY the "right" way
prohibits me from running clients on other machines and using my
display.

Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance,

-Vartan  

vartan@itstd.sri.com