Re: @%$#$ can't start on RH 7.1

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Having looked a bit further at the code to canonicalise an X display specification, it doesn't seem to handle DECnet specifiers, or explicit protocol specifications. The comment above split_up_display_spec() says: /* Parse a DISPLAY specification like "host:10.0" or ":0" */ However, the comment above _X11TransConnectDisplay() in Xlib says: /* * Attempts to connect to server, given display name. Returns file descriptor * (network socket) or -1 if connection fails. Display names may be of the * following format: * * [protocol/] [hostname] : [:] displaynumber [.screennumber] * * The second colon indicates a DECnet style name. No hostname is interpretted * as the most efficient local connection to a server on the same machine. * This is usually: * * o shared memory * o local stream * o UNIX domain socket * o TCP to local host * * This function will eventually call the X Transport Interface functions * which expects the hostname in the format: * * [protocol/] [hostname] : [:] displaynumber * */ Note that these don't require any explicit support from the application; XOpenDisplay(NULL) and XOpenDisplay(<arbitrary string>) will do the right thing automatically. Maybe the canonicalisation code should go, and the value of $DISPLAY just used as-is. Anything else is bound to get it wrong in some cases. -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net&gt;