On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a > while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to > launch an X client, I got the error message: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > > The crazy thing is that it is enough to issue > > export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > > to get things working again from a shell (DISPLAY used to be only > :0.0).
Try these commands: ls -l /tmp/.X11-unix xhost xauth list and post the results if you need help with their output. The latter two need access to the X server, so you probably should apply your workaround first. Regards, Mirko
