I've noticed that under certain circumstances I can no longer connect to a running XEmacs instance on my laptop using gnuclient (I think since I traded in my powerbook for a macbook pro, but I'm not sure). list-processes shows that I have gnuserv running: Proc Status Buffer Tty Command ---- ------ ------ --- ------- gnuserv run (none) /dev/ttys003 gnuserv and the xemacs and gnuclient programs are located in the same place and are of similar vintage: % type -a gnuclient gnuclient is /Users/skip/local/bin/gnuclient gnuclient is /usr/bin/gnuclient % type -a xemacs xemacs is /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs % file /Users/skip/local/bin/gnuclient /Users/skip/local/bin/gnuclient: Mach-O executable i386 % file /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs: Mach-O executable i386 % ls -l /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs lrwxrwxr-x 1 skip staff 15 Mar 3 04:17 /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs -> xemacs-21.5-b28 % ls -lL /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs -rwxr-xr-x 1 skip staff 5314052 Mar 3 04:17 /Users/skip/local/bin/xemacs % ls -l /Users/skip/local/bin/gnuclient -rwxr-xr-x 1 skip staff 23348 Mar 3 04:17 /Users/skip/local/bin/gnuclient but I can't connect. Here are a bunch of failed attempts with different variants: % gnuclient -nw -q gnuclient: No such file or directory gnuclient: unable to connect to local % gnuclient -q gnuclient: No such file or directory gnuclient: unable to connect to local % gnuclient -nw gnuclient: No such file or directory gnuclient: unable to connect to local % echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 % DISPLAY= gnuclient -q gnuclient: No such file or directory gnuclient: unable to connect to local % unset DISPLAY % gnuclient -q gnuclient: No such file or directory gnuclient: unable to connect to local The one thing those failed attempts all have in common is that I first ssh'd into my desktop machine at work then ssh'd back into my laptop at home. If I avoid the two ssh commands and just run gnuclient from a Terminal window on my laptop gnuclient works just fine. I can clearly find the gnuclient app, so I presume it's gnuclient that can't find some file or directory in the double ssh case, but which one? Is it somehow related to the new way the DISPLAY environment variable works on Leopard's X11? In the no-ssh case my DISPLAY is "/tmp/launch-6mb1rV/:0". I tried changing it to that in the double-ssh case but that didn't improve matters. -- Skip Montanaro - skip(a)pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta