On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 19:26, David Holm wrote: > Hi, > I updated my CURRENT system today, previously I was running on a one week old > build. > After I updated I can no longer run xmms, it returns with the following > messages: > > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library > Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C > Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > > I have searched for a solution and found some pages saying I should set $LANG > or $LANGUAGE or $LC_LANG but changing these do not help, even if I set one of > them to say ISO8859-1 (or even the path to iso8859-1 > (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1)) I still get the same message > complaining about locale C not supported. And yeah, the first message, "local > not supported by C library" only appears if I set one of the shell variables. > Otherwise I only get the 3 lines below it.
These locales are not valid. Set your locale to: en_US.ISO_8859-1 And you should be set. The real problem seems to be your DISPLAY variable. What is it set to? Where are you running xmms from? Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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